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joelrunyon | karma 8027 | avg karma 3.79 · 2012-10-11 06:50:59+00:00

Ironically, the reason they bought Paypal was because it was originally a competitive advantage for them :).

Funny how a decade can change things.

irreverentbits | karma 29 | avg karma 1.53 · 2012-10-11 04:13:32

I'd guess PayPal would still be a competitive advantage if it were quicker to respond to competitors like Stripe.

rbn | karma 197 | avg karma 1.95 · 2012-10-11 05:15:40

Stripe might be more dev friendly. But PayPal is years ahead. They are available in most countries and you can practically do anything with PayPal Adaptive Payments. They are also doing a the Square like credit card processing plus many many other things.

I know Stripe is good. But It will be interesting to see when they can match PayPal's features.

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