# PayPal's New Card Reader Seems Very Familiar

Type: linked post (commentary on an external article)
Article: https://www.theverge.com/2012/3/15/2874647/paypal-here-credit-card-reader-pictures
URL: https://www.jonathant.com/blog/paypals-new-card-reader-seems-very-familiar/
Published: 2012-03-16
Updated: 2026-08-09
Author: Jonathan Tarud

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The [new PayPal payment dongle](https://www.theverge.com/2012/3/15/2874647/paypal-here-credit-card-reader-pictures) is to Square…..

![paypal](paypal.jpg "paypal.jpg")

As the Saber Pyramid tablet is to the iPad.

![the office](the-office.jpg "the office.jpg")

The sad part, is that only one was meant to be a joke.

[Image credit: [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2012/3/15/2874647/paypal-here-credit-card-reader-pictures) and [The Huffington Post](https://www.huffpost.com/2011/10/01/dunder-mifflin-pyramid-tablet-the-office_n_989557.html)]

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Source: https://www.theverge.com/2012/3/15/2874647/paypal-here-credit-card-reader-pictures