Square now in Japan

I swear I'm never going to catch up to the fact that Square no longer means the folks who created Final Fantasy.

At the HN meetup in Tokyo just last week people were complaining about the lack of something like Square in Japan. I guess things will get better now.<p>Transforming your iPad/iPhone into a register is also pretty neat. I wonder if they'll look into putting an NFC reader in there and interface with all the IC cards here. Most people don't pay for their coffee by credit card.

So I take it that Japan doesn't have EMV chips in their bank cards yet? I'm curious to see how Square tackles that when they hopefully expand to Europe and Australia.

This is definitely cool, but I'm really holding out for Stripe to come to Japan. An easy API for web app monetization would make a big difference.

A topic from yesterday "Apple Is Using Sass, And They’re Doing It Wrong"…<p>Also Square? <a href="https://divoqsdr0fzyc.cloudfront.net/assets/core-f5784136cd1228c990aba8ee86b517b8.css" rel="nofollow">https://divoqsdr0fzyc.cloudfront.net/assets/core-f5784136cd1...</a>

It's interesting how their homepage design 'looks japanese'. The woman's shoes; squeaky clean, almost artificial skin in the hand portraits; the tiled colorful boxes; flat buttons &#38; footer. Something reminiscent of Uniqlo.

I'm looking forward to having them launch in the UK! Does anyone here have access to the beta?

Great work!