Actually, Intuit came up with the idea for using mobile phones to accept card payments in 2007 - long before Square.<p>They ran trials in the Bay Area in summer 2008, launched GoPayment properly in early 2009 (with a Bluetooth reader supporting various feature phones), and launched an iPhone app in August 2009.<p>Square announced their card reader in December 2009 and didn&#x27;t actually launch until the following May.