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Square nails their use case of "allowing people to pay in person with a credit card." That's Square's problem. They aren't focused on being the generic omnipres
by jimminy 13y ago
Square nails their use case of "allowing people to pay in person with a credit card." That's Square's problem. They aren't focused on being the generic omnipresent payment processor, just making physical transactions possible without cash or checks.
Edit: I do agree that the author really sould have made the problem statement more clear.
- hasenj 13y agoWell, that's still pretty vague. It seems like what you did there is just reformulate the problem statement to make it look like a stand-alone problem instead of as a use case (or subset) of a large problem.
- Volpe 13y agoHandling credit card payments in person is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT problem to being an online payment processor. Other than paypal, no one offers BOTH services... Paypal seems to have done it, purely as a response to square. Banks I guess do it, but they don't do any of it well. So which problem are you refering to that groups In person payment with online payment? Because it feels much harder to frame them together than apart...