Square is launching Apple Pay-supporting registers in 2015

Square founder Jack Dorsey — who also famously launched Twitter — told CNN that he wants to help businesses accept all forms of payments, and Apple Pay is no exception. Apple Pay and Square have generally been viewed as competitors in the mobile payment space, but Dorsey doesn’t see it that way. “We’re not building a credit card. We’re not building a payment device. We’re building a [cash] register, and this register accepts all these forms of payments,” Dorsey told CNN in an interview. Square plans to begin accepting Apple Pay sometime in 2015. As it stands now, Square’s hardware allows businesses to accept credit card payments via iPads and iPhones, with customers swiping their cards through a tiny square device. But the technology is not currently equipped to accept Apple Pay. The hardware will have to be reworked to be compatible with the Apple Pay system, allowing for potentially seamless transactions from one mobile device to another.