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I looked into this new stand but the customer signature screen sucks and you can't install anything else on it.
If this was so carefully designed why isn’t there an LED ring around the card slot? The first time I used one, the clerk had to explain several times that there was a nearly invisible card slot in front of me.
> Square has designed its own secure enclave, > a co-processor for processing encrypted > payment information. About a dozen > employees at Square work on the silicon > team. I do not believe this. $50 says it is just an STM32 with square-written firmware
[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/11/square-buys-kili-technolog...
We use Square, using a 6 year old iPad and the first "stand" they made. It works great. We also use it to pull up the website, control music and Chrome-cast videos. We do this maybe 1-2x a year. But it still is multi-purpose. I looked into this new stand but the customer signature screen sucks and you can't install anything else on it.
I read so many stories about skimmers on ATMs and other POS machines - that maybe this is a good thing?
They've decided to compete in the dedicated POS space, yet they continue to compare themselves to tablet based solutions. To that end, I don't think they're actually delivering much novelty here, they've only eliminated the flexibility and low cost benefits that their other products provide.
How did you get that as a takeaway?
If this was so carefully designed why isn’t there an LED ring around the card slot? The first time I used one, the clerk had to explain several times that there was a nearly invisible card slot in front of me.
I've never seen any LED lights around a card slot on any self-service terminal before. They all have a card slot at the bottom section of whatever screen/keypad device is part of the UI and customers never seem to have an issue finding it.
If this was so carefully designed why isn’t there an LED ring around the card slot? The first time I used one, the clerk had to explain several times that there was a nearly invisible card slot in front of me.
I've never seen any LED lights around a card slot on any self-service terminal before. They all have a card slot at the bottom section of whatever screen/keypad device is part of the UI and customers never seem to have an issue finding it.
We use Square, using a 6 year old iPad and the first "stand" they made. It works great. We also use it to pull up the website, control music and Chrome-cast videos. We do this maybe 1-2x a year. But it still is multi-purpose. I looked into this new stand but the customer signature screen sucks and you can't install anything else on it.
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Square on iPads has inadvertently given Apple a beachhead in retail stores. I imagine Square wants these new devices to block Apple from converting these retail iPad users to a competing Apple services.
Apple isn't interested in getting into a shrinking industry like retail. The hand holding and R&D required are extensive, and don't generate enough profit to meet Apple's margin goals.