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Game_Ender on March 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Square Register

Apple uses iPod touches with a more beefy card reader setup in their retail stores. You could do the same with a slightly modified iPad case, and a reinforced reader.

unicron on March 5, 2012 [–]

It would still be no good. If you drop one, it's dead. If you drop a Barclays PDQ, you pick it up and continue the transaction.

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