VeriFone launches iPhone card acceptance hardware

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by pmikal • 17 years ago

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pmikal2• 17 years ago

This is what Square should have designed....

rufo2• 17 years ago

Why?

By designing their reader the way Square has, it drastically minimizes cost and opens the design so it works with most smartphones and even many laptops.

I hope that screenshot isn't representative of their software, either... it looks horrendous.

pmikal2• 17 years ago

You think a card reader in a headphone jack is going to last long in a retail environment?

rit• 17 years ago

Apple is already using something similar (if not this device) in their stores. I noticed last week in the 5th Ave. Apple Store in NY that the guy had an iPod Touch with a card reader/barcode scasnner as opposed to the windows mobile devices they traditionally used for iPhone activation, etc.

He remarked it's apple's goal to move completely to these, as the WinCE devices suck. Pretty cool, although you've also just introduced a fantastic portable card skimmer :)

jonah• 17 years ago

It doesn't look like Apple stores are using this one. As you mentioned it has a barcode scanner too. The sales drone didn't know details about it though.

+1 for VeriFone building this.

cpr• 17 years ago

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/11/03/exclusive_look... is what Apple's using.

A bit clunky due to small manufacturing runs (no ability to super-shrink and amortize expensive R&D over millions of copies).

VeriFone launches iPhone card acceptance hardware

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