Square today unveiled the Square Stand, the company's latest effort to become an even more entrenched player in the mobile-payments market.
The Square Stand is essentially an elegant stand with an embedded card reader for the iPad, which when running Square Register, offers a compelling alternative to traditional cash registers. You might also notice that the device bears an ever so slight resemblance to Apple's iMac.
"Local business owners take as a given that they need an ugly, slow, expensive, and complicated point of sale system cluttering their counter," Square co-founder Jack Dorsey,
