Mac mini redesign tho... they can't do that via press release. CAn they? Would they ? Could they?
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Apple Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary of Apple Pay With Open Letter and Interview
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You don’t need Apple Pay to use your phone or watch for contactless payments. It works with any card that you add to Wallet.
Isn’t that what “Apple Pay” is, just having a credit card in your Wallet? (OK so there is some encryption stuff going on but for all intents and purposes, it’s just a card in a Wallet). What’s the is Walmart thing, so they not accept contactless?
They don’t call boarding passes Apple Boarding.
I understand why they call the payment by on in websites Apple Pay, though, kind of.
It’s just so super convenient. Especially because with an Apple Watch, you now don’t have to carry neither your wallet, nor your phone!
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... yeah same difference to my story.
...I went to sleep on that too for the same reasons.
Sure they could. It’s not a huge redesign, just a smaller footprint and more ports (allegedly). Of course they could also do a surprise 30 minute video introducing new things as they’ve done in the past instead.
My city, Phoenix scans QR codes. I just got back from SF which has tap to travel.
It’s a first world problem I am sure but man, it sure is way more convenient.
At least I was able to program my action button to open up that QR code, so it’s “kinda” like tap to travel lmao.
The only problem is that if you use the tube frequently, you have to use the same card every time to get any weekly discounts. I don’t think they get it always right….. my TfL (the tube company) debits are a mess.
The QR codes probably have the discount built-in.
A press release is too little. Fly everyone over to CA again a month later to see a smaller Mac mini and some spec bumps on other products...ok maybe too much.
So we go with the video with no theatre invites. A pre-announced online only pre-recorded event.
They can't pass up the '~world's smallest computer' marketing opportunity.
It only started being useful recently.
Kroger and Lowes finally gave up and started taking it.
Walmart hasn't been losing money, they have been gaining..and their CEO has been very vocal over the years that it has nothing to do with customers; they consider any fee for payment processing, whatsoever, to be negative, as it cuts into their revenue.
And 10 years later, nobody cares about MCX or their Failed CurrentC Competitor to Apple Pay.
Happy that many of the retailers that initially went this route dropped that stupid system and started to support Apple Pay and Android / Google wallet.
Happy that many of the retailers that initially went this route dropped that stupid system and started to support Apple Pay and Android / Google wallet.
Except they still accept credit cards, so that really isn’t a valid argument.
When they were supporting MCX, part of their motivation for doing so was to reduce the fees, but also to collect far more consumer data by understanding what loyalty activities they had as it was a linked part of that flawed system.
They do accept cards because they know they have to, but they have been vocal that they hate paying CC fees.
Mike Cook (walmart treasurer) and the CEO of Visa got in a heated argument on stage a few years ago, with Mike Cook saying that swipe fees were way to high, should be zero, and his personal mission was to completely end payment processing fees paid by Walmart.
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They don’t have to accept credit cards. That is fully their call. I don’t think any corporation enjoys transaction fees they can’t control. It is why so many joined MCX.
IMO that argument (from their CEO) does not justify them not accepting Apple Pay as their fees are generally lower.
They also insist on their payment method (Wal*Mart Pay) for the same reasons they liked MCX, they want to collect data on their consumers.
Financially they do have to accept them even if they technically don't, as they would lose too much business if they didn't, but they don't have to accept Apple Pay (or Google Pay, or Samsung Pay)..and yet their revenue and sales continue to grow, so they aren't concerned with changing their stance.
Yes, everyone is aware that they want the data, too, but with face recognition and other things coming online, how the customer pays might not matter much longer.
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Zero is unrealistic IMO but one could argue that there's no justification for them being much higher than what the EU capped them to (i.e. 0.2-0.3% or so). Whether that would have made US merchants roll out contactless/Apple Pay more quickly had such a cap been in force a decade ago we'll never know.
They do, and they are part of the fare capping program. I guess it's much easier to implement it this way. You can tap a credit card to pay for single rides.
How do you start tabs at bars without a physical card? I guess we’re not quite there yet here in NY.
In London pubs (probably elsewhere also) you either pay as you go, or you make a dummy payment (like checking into a hotel), and then your group gets a card with a number that you use to run up the tab.