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Re:Twitter Creator Jack Dorsey’s iPhone Payment System by jfarmer on Sunday October 18, 2009 @12:42AM (#887977)
I dunno. I think the fact that it transmits the data via an audio signal is pretty cool.
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Re:Twitter Creator Jack Dorsey’s iPhone Payment System by jrockway on Sunday October 18, 2009 @03:55AM (#888145)
I will agree that the Web 2.0 version of an acoustic coupler is much smaller than the 1970s version:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_coupler

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Re:Twitter Creator Jack Dorsey’s iPhone Payment System by ivankirigin on Sunday October 18, 2009 @01:12AM (#888009)
That's what makes it not an "iphone device". Software to parse it can run on any phone with a jack. That makes it convenient, but isn't really the product.
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