Honestly, I'm going to go on a rant here -
NFC payments will flop in the United States. The people over here are just so lazy and stupid that the payment method will never take off. The merchants are also too cheap and slow to adopt to anything that has to do with up to date technology. Every card reader should have been CONSUMER FACING years ago. Even if the EMV slot and NFC antenna were disabled. Why do most of these food places have the stupid register with the swipe reader attached to the screen on the machine? Verifone has six different consumer facing devices that could've been installed years ago little by little at a time to avoid such a huge cost to upgrade all of their machines at once.
The other day I was texting one of my friends about how her Discover card will give her a 10% bonus on purchases with Apple Pay and guess what she said? "Oh I'd rather just swipe my card instead." Oh so you're going to turn down FREE MONEY and security?? I gave up with her and just fought against myself in my brain to not give her a lesson about why she's an idiot.
It's just pointless to even try anything to make anything up to date in the good 'ole USA. There's a reason why every other country thinks American's are stupid.
NFC payments will flop in the United States. The people over here are just so lazy and stupid that the payment method will never take off. The merchants are also too cheap and slow to adopt to anything that has to do with up to date technology. Every card reader should have been CONSUMER FACING years ago. Even if the EMV slot and NFC antenna were disabled. Why do most of these food places have the stupid register with the swipe reader attached to the screen on the machine? Verifone has six different consumer facing devices that could've been installed years ago little by little at a time to avoid such a huge cost to upgrade all of their machines at once.
The other day I was texting one of my friends about how her Discover card will give her a 10% bonus on purchases with Apple Pay and guess what she said? "Oh I'd rather just swipe my card instead." Oh so you're going to turn down FREE MONEY and security?? I gave up with her and just fought against myself in my brain to not give her a lesson about why she's an idiot.
It's just pointless to even try anything to make anything up to date in the good 'ole USA. There's a reason why every other country thinks American's are stupid.