As I have pointed out before,Pay is 'The Next Big Thing'.
But it doesn't even use a stylus..
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Apple Had More Than 1 Million Card Activations During First 72 Hours of Apple Pay
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But it doesn't even use a stylus..
And incomplete support from them, too. My B of A business card isn't supported.
Would you mind to explain the difference between credit and debit card for a non U.S. Resident?
To be expected though given the current state of battery technology. I have to charge my Moto 360 nightly, too.
Credit card: The card issuer will pay the bill on your behalf (your credit). However, you have to pay the bill back either in full, or partly with a given interest rate.
Debit card: card issuer will pay the bill; bill amount will be withdrawn from your account at your bank.
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My educated guess is it's about 6-700.000 people.
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Strange enough, in the last 20 years I had the credit card hacked twice, but the debit card never.
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Yep, thanks.
As I said, same here. We just call the debit card a different name (bancomat)
Yeah. They really did. I actually expected maybe a hiccup or two. None at all since I have been using it. It just works, and simple, like most things Apple.
Aren't the latest estimates saying 20,000,000 iPhone 6 & 6+ sold worldwide in over 20 or 30 countries?
Even if we generously assume that the USA got 5,000,000 of those, to then have 1,000,000 cards activated. Shall we say an average of 3 cards per person/phone? (I only activated 1).
That would be 333,333 people/phones with cards on them out of 5,000,000. Or 1 in 15 people. That is a huge start.
Of course it's wasted because you have so few NFC terminals in the US.
(Compared to places like Australia which have had NFC credit and debit cards for a few years now).
Even if we generously assume that the USA got 5,000,000 of those, to then have 1,000,000 cards activated. Shall we say an average of 3 cards per person/phone? (I only activated 1).
That would be 333,333 people/phones with cards on them out of 5,000,000. Or 1 in 15 people. That is a huge start.
Of course it's wasted because you have so few NFC terminals in the US.
(Compared to places like Australia which have had NFC credit and debit cards for a few years now).
Only US banks support Apple Pay at the moment, so all 1,000,000 Apple Pay card adds are US cards (and probably 95-98% are US residents).
Aaaaand we can expect it in Australia when? I hope very soon. When they hyped up the iPhone 6 prior to release, they didn't say that NFC would be useless outside the U.S. We have NFC terminals in Aus, we could be using this. Does this suggest Apple are concerned people will be happy using it on current terminal and there won't be as much need to adopt Apple Pay systems? This better not be months and months away, this is one of the reasons I was excited about iP6 and grabbed in on day 1. Mmmmm
That's nothing compared to how many customers CVS lost to the stop sale of tobacco products. Trust me CVS isn't worried about NFC sales loss lol
5S has no NFC, so this's irrelevant. I have a 5S and just sold it for $400. My 6+ arrives this Thursday and all my cards will go in there. After the breach at Target last time, I would not want to use any physical card anymore.
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They will when many pharmacy prescriptions move to Walgreens. Believe me, the media and online blogs are worse than the NFC disabling itself. They make big deal out of it and people start moving away form Rite Aid or CVS.
Now this I will agree with. CVS hates the media..hates bad PR. And it is all about scripts I have plenty of family who work for CVS their company is based in my state.
I really hope CVS turns the NFC readers back on but I fear they cannot from pressure from the other MCX merchants.
The list of CurrentC businesses is huge!
They don't care NOW, but they will in 2-3 years when the majority of iPhones in the wild will have NFC and the service is rolled out more widely in the US.
People tend to look only at the here and now, but fail to look where this is going. It is a short sighted move by CVS and they will reverse their decision.
CVS cares about 1 thing PRESCRIPTIONS.
If you want to hurt CVS this is where it's done,not the redbull and bag of chips up front.
EDIT..also 2 to 3 years is so long away so much will change by then,i'm hoping by this time next year at the latest they turn around. They also have some of the best NFC readers around lol, theirs works flawless.
Especially generic prescriptions. My cousin who's a pharmacist over there says they have something like 10000% markup on the generics, while the brand-name drugs have pretty low markup
Short term they probably won't even notice it, however if
Pay takes off they may see shoppers go elsewhere because it's more convenient. Especially if you regularly use Pay and then have to go through the rigmarole of paying with your card and realise that it's a total PITA that you will probably avoid shopping there if you can purchase the same foods elsewhere.
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