Comments on: Apple stores to ditch Windows EasyPay systems for iPhone 3.0 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/04/10/apple-stores-to-ditch-windows-easypay-systems-for-iphone-30/ Daniel Eran Dilger in San Francisco Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:51:09 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: StrictNon-Conformist http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/04/10/apple-stores-to-ditch-windows-easypay-systems-for-iphone-30/comment-page-1/#comment-18401 StrictNon-Conformist Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:07:39 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/?p=3464#comment-18401 @CCS: what are they currently using for their credit card POS devices now? IF there's a fear that the current wiFi isn't up to snuff for security with the default encryption (which seems reasonable enough to fear, all considering) why not add yet another layer of encryption? Seriously, Bluetooth only has the theoretical advantage of it having a much lower transmission range, but if the Apple store I've visited is any indication, 1.) Bluetooth may not have the needed range (it's just large enough to possibly matter) and 2.) There's enough people in there at any one time that if they had the proper device, they could listen in on that as well: there's no such thing as the unhackable wireless transmission medium at this time in production, even if something that's supposed to be unhackable exists in research labs, say, using quantum entanglement. @CCS: what are they currently using for their credit card POS devices now? IF there’s a fear that the current wiFi isn’t up to snuff for security with the default encryption (which seems reasonable enough to fear, all considering) why not add yet another layer of encryption? Seriously, Bluetooth only has the theoretical advantage of it having a much lower transmission range, but if the Apple store I’ve visited is any indication, 1.) Bluetooth may not have the needed range (it’s just large enough to possibly matter) and 2.) There’s enough people in there at any one time that if they had the proper device, they could listen in on that as well: there’s no such thing as the unhackable wireless transmission medium at this time in production, even if something that’s supposed to be unhackable exists in research labs, say, using quantum entanglement.

]]> By: CCS http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/04/10/apple-stores-to-ditch-windows-easypay-systems-for-iphone-30/comment-page-1/#comment-18397 CCS Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:51:40 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/?p=3464#comment-18397 @StrictNon-Conformist: Credit card readers over WiFi? I think it's great that Apple is finally moving to the cooler product for mobile checkout. I hope any credit card reader they use looks just as svelte. ;-) @StrictNon-Conformist: Credit card readers over WiFi?

I think it’s great that Apple is finally moving to the cooler product for mobile checkout. I hope any credit card reader they use looks just as svelte. ;-)

]]> By: StrictNon-Conformist http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/04/10/apple-stores-to-ditch-windows-easypay-systems-for-iphone-30/comment-page-1/#comment-18391 StrictNon-Conformist Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:12:53 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/?p=3464#comment-18391 For the life of me, I have no clue why Apple didn't make this possible via WiFi LONG ago, even if it involved buying some third party's solution, developed for the iPhone/iPod Touch: it simply puzzled the crap out of me that shortly after the iPhone was released that they weren't using it for this, as Bluetooth really isn't required if you have a centralized system to submit transactions to that is interfaced via TCPIP. That, and it's great to eat your own dog food for advertising ;) For the life of me, I have no clue why Apple didn’t make this possible via WiFi LONG ago, even if it involved buying some third party’s solution, developed for the iPhone/iPod Touch: it simply puzzled the crap out of me that shortly after the iPhone was released that they weren’t using it for this, as Bluetooth really isn’t required if you have a centralized system to submit transactions to that is interfaced via TCPIP. That, and it’s great to eat your own dog food for advertising ;)

]]> By: gus2000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/04/10/apple-stores-to-ditch-windows-easypay-systems-for-iphone-30/comment-page-1/#comment-18389 gus2000 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:26:43 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/?p=3464#comment-18389 POS LOL POS LOL

]]> By: leicaman http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/04/10/apple-stores-to-ditch-windows-easypay-systems-for-iphone-30/comment-page-1/#comment-18382 leicaman Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:09:18 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/?p=3464#comment-18382 Funny, the wrong words come into my mind when reading the acronym POS. It sure makes me think of Windows. Funny, the wrong words come into my mind when reading the acronym POS. It sure makes me think of Windows.

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