The End Of Card Terminals Is In Sight

It only took a year for software and hardware innovators to completely disrupt the Point-of-Sale industry forever. In 2009 AirPOS in Belfast, Square in California, Lightspeed in Toronto and Vend in Auckland had started to create a new category of cloud-based point of sale applications.

Meanwhile in 2010 Apple and Google had created a new generation of computing hardware with the debut of the iPad and a wide range Android tablets. What Point-of-Sale setups cost, how they were built, how they were distributed and how they took payments would never be the same. Chunky and clunky Windows terminals were on their way to recycling plant of history and now in 2023 Apple and Google are completing the job.

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