Behold the Apple POS system Patent.
Folks this is huge. Will change business plans 

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&p=1&S1=(Apple.AANM.+AND+payment)&OS=AANM/Apple+AND+payment&RS=(AANM/Apple+AND+payment …
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele
@BrianRoemmele Brian, this is from 2013 no? Why is this news?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Greg_Coogan
@Greg_Coogan Hi Greg, Just released by the US Patent office on August 6th, 2015! The back story will be quite interesting.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @BrianRoemmele
@BrianRoemmele Brian, apparently I can’t differentiate filing date from approval date. My bad. Carry on!2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Greg_Coogan
@Greg_Coogan@BrianRoemmele it is actually issued Jan 4 2011 This is an update1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @sshawki
@sshawki@Greg_Coogan Sam, Yes! Hot on the trial! Dig deeper and see it is a lot older. More interesting is who the inventors are.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @BrianRoemmele
@BrianRoemmele@Greg_Coogan A husband & wife that has been at Apple for many years. Why is it important?2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@sshawki @Greg_Coogan Sam, they were not at Apple at the time of the issuing.
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