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title: Love it!  Square enabling Apple Pay?  Real?  Rumor?
date: "2014-11-23T00:25:29-07:00"
modified: "2014-11-23T00:25:29-07:00"
author: kims
url: "https://dominoresearch.com/love-it-square-enabling-apple-pay-real-rumor"
categories: Location & Proximity
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description: So Gizmodo publishes today, about a potential Square and Apple Pay match up; Square will enable Apple Pay for an update next year. The article mentions some method of doing this without having to replace the Square readers — but the reality is that Square readers, unless they are really new – are not EMV […]
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# Love it!  Square enabling Apple Pay?  Real?  Rumor?

[So Gizmodo publishes today, about a potential Square and Apple Pay match up](http://gizmodo.com/apple-pay-could-be-coming-to-small-businesses-thanks-t-1662107133); Square will enable Apple Pay for an update next year.

The article mentions some method of doing this without having to replace the Square readers — but the reality is that Square readers, unless they are really new – are not EMV compliant (or rather I don’t think they’ve replaced all the readers already) so it’s probably easier and more cost effective to scale it into the new setup than to have a double replacement whammy that someone’s got to pay for…