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kylelibra on June 27, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: MasterCard's Simplify Commerce

The entrenched payment companies are definitely scared of competition, but by launching clones of their competitors they show they still don't get it.

agilebyte on June 27, 2013 [–]

I think that their target audience are (mom & pop) businesses (about to go online) happy to trust the Mastercard brand, not programmers that get uppity about seeing yet another clone & complaining about an API.

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