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Accept credit card payments from your iPhone (arstechnica.com)
19 points by ashishk on Oct 30, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Wow, this is really cool. It won't really enable person-to-person transfers, but person-to-POS in a mobile format is slick. I'm a liiiiiiitle bit leery of having someone punch in all of my card data to their iPhone. It would be a bit too easy to hold on to those numbers for too long. But then, I'm fooling myself if I think that those sorts of things don't happen with standard card readers as well.

Mobile handheld card processing will be fantastic for a lot of small businesses.


Love the creative uses people are bringing to the phone.




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