![]() But either workaround was a bit kludgy-one more thing to buy, futz with, and possibly lose. Square also sold a custom $10 dock-like adapter designed specifically for its reader. Like a pair of headphones, the original Square reader could be connected to an iPhone via Apple’s $9 Lightning-to-3.5 mm dongle. ![]() (By then, it didn’t account for every transaction: The company had already introduced a larger reader which worked with chip-enabled cards as well as Apple Pay and Google Pay.) The headphone jack’s absence from iPhones was a problem for millions of people who owned a favorite pair of headphones with a 3.5 mm plug, but it also required adjustment by any merchant who’d been happily accepting payment with the original Square reader and an iPhone. ![]() Seven years after Square shipped its reader, Apple ditched the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, a move that was (depending on whom you asked) courageous, inconvenient, or nightmarish, or maybe a little bit of all three. You already know where I’m headed with this. ![]()
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