Apple looking to sell iPod touch-based EasyPay checkout system to others?

The final commercial product will also likely have a RFID reader as well.
I suspect we will hear an announcement at WWDC.

I have seen over a dozen different vendors - below is the app I use for my design studio where I sometimes visit customers and charge them on location right from my iphone.

The app is called "Billing Credit Card Terminal". This app has an amazing interface and also captures the customers signature on the screen using his/her finger in place of a pen. This is one of the apps I think would fall under the no extra hardware needed since all its features and functions are built into the software.

direct link:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/billi...326255801?mt=8

web: http://www.spartadata.com/

Chip cards have only begun to roll out in Canada in the last couple years and it's been a slow process so not too many people have them yet. When someone needs to be sent a new card (expired, lost, etc.) the new one will be a chip card, so it'll still be another couple years at least before everyone has one. I think where I work it's still a small percentage of cards we see that are actually chip cards.

As a manager of purchasing and warehouse departments the idea of using iPods as an inventory/item ordering input device has really really peaked my interest.

If Apple can do the following they will have tons of businesses in my industry and line of work lining up to get them:
- tie into allow a formatted version of SAP/Oracle/IFS/etc etc
- high security to the data transactions
- (hate to suggest this but its a real concern with workers) hamper the ability of users to use the iPods for anything other than the basic functions (ie limit the surf the net, music, media etc) without hurting any of the business related functions

These would be great for the Microsoft stores!!

I'm interested in the barcode part for our data collection program (agriculture). I'm currently paying $1,200 for a Janam XP20 running PalmOS. The iPod should outperform the Janam units and will also cost much less.

I had one of those lame PayPass RFID cards, but never used it. My three credit cards and three debit cards don't have chip. Welcome to USA, where people actually read the articles and can comment with some kind of authority.

In the San Francisco Bay Area there is no chip/PIN method. No place that I have visited in the US uses this chip/PIN method.

but no chip and pin support, so still only of any use for US and Indian systems where there is next to no security for your card if stolen! C'mon America, you should have adopted chip and pin years ago!!!

Oh, please Joanna D, you don't live in a cocoon do you?

Chip and PIN has not been implemented everywhere.

At least not in the USA.