{"id":4238,"date":"2014-09-04T18:09:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T18:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2014-08-29T18:22:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T18:22:39","slug":"linked-back-to-square-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/linked-back-to-square-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: Back to Square One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3033412\/back-to-square-one\">via FastCompany<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fuzzy focus culminated in Square Wallet, which was initially called Card Case. Though Dorsey won&#8217;t acknowledge it publicly, the aim internally, says one source, was to &#8220;own both sides of the counter&#8221;&#8211;vendor and customer&#8211;so the company could one day &#8220;cut out the credit-card companies altogether.&#8221; (At weekly all-hands meetings, former COO Keith Rabois, only half-jokingly, used to announce the projected date on which Square&#8217;s payments-processing volume would overtake Visa&#8217;s.) Instead of helping consumers pay with their phones, like many other digital-wallet products, Square&#8217;s Wallet app enabled consumers to open a virtual tab with a nearby shop and then pay for items merely by saying their name when they arrived. Despite its popularity with the tech vanguard, Wallet saw barely any adoption. Few merchants accepted it, partly because few consumers paid with it, and vice versa. Even where Square Wallet was accepted, cashiers often didn&#8217;t know how it worked. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t necessarily faster, or more convenient,&#8221; Dorsey says, looking back. &#8220;It felt more futuristic, but that doesn&#8217;t make it better.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I STILL use Square Wallet. Every single merchant I\u2019ve ever encountered accepts Wallet. i\u2019ve never had an issue paying with Wallet and at most of the breweries, cafes and bakeries that I frequent, I auto-check in when walking through the doors. They see me on the list and charge me. The fact that Square Wallet is no longer available on the App store is a shame but I still keep it on my iPhone and use it every single day when I\u2019m in big-cities. Finally, I use it as a way to find nearby establishment. I open it and use it like FourSquare to find nearby cafes. For some reason, a cafe taking square means they do Pour-Over coffee\u2026something about the hipster-ness of Square that if a place accepts wallet, I\u2019m certain the quality of their coffee is also good. Wallet is a utility in my life that I\u2019d hate to give up. Why it didn\u2019t catch on doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via FastCompany: The fuzzy focus culminated in Square Wallet, which was initially called Card Case. 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