Those of you living in a city graced by Square's
Card Case have been gleefully opening tabs and making plastic-free
payments
at select merchants since May. Starting today, iPhone users will now
save precious seconds of shopping time as opening tabs has been
automated - as soon as you're close enough to designated
establishments, tabs open themselves courtesy of new geo-fencing APIs
exposed in iOS 5. For those who are unfamiliar, the previous iPhone and
Android apps required users to manually open those tabs from within the
vicinity of a Square-approved merchant. After that, users complete
purchases as before by simply confirming their name to a store clerk.
That's one more step in society's never-ending
quest for frictionless payments, but those with an evil twin or a
stalking doppelgänger might want to think twice before joining
the Square revolution.
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