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I said for months and years that Square was absolutely myopic and slow-moving when it came to online transactions and developing and releasing an API (which still does NOT exist).

Stripe came in and absolutely crushed them.

Square deserves it. They had huge first-mover advantage and massive popularity early. I will do mid six figures through Stripe in the next 12 months and all of it - 100% of it - could have gone through Square had they simply spent a few weeks exposing and documenting an API.

Embarrassing.

parent icelancer 12 years ago

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