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by throwanem 3572 days ago
> I wonder in which proportion this decision was made to prevent shop owners from using these small credit card readers connected to the audio port and push Apple Pay down their throat.

As far as the hardware's concerned, a Square reader is a microphone. Microphones work via the Lightning adapter. I see no a priori reason to imagine that a Square reader won't work that way, too.