He could sell his 5s for $450 and only have to shell out $200 more for a better phone.
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He could sell his 5s for $450 and only have to shell out $200 more for a better phone.
So how does the iPhone 5 and 5C work with this if they don't have Touch ID? AFAIK the Apple Watch doesn't have Touch ID.
Since when do you need NFC to make an online payment with no terminal? You may be right that it won't work, but not for that reason. I thought Apple showed off using Apple Pay online, and if you have Touch ID on a 5S I don't see why you couldn't use it to make paymentsunless they need some kind of secure enclave for the CC numbers, but I can't remember how that part works as they're using tokens or something.
i am not even sure where i can actually use credit cards besides for online shopping over here 
Subway said nope, Mc Donalds said nope, Media Markt said nope, Gasstation said nope, cinema said 1 extra, Grocery Store said nope
therefore nope never gonna happen here
Subway said nope, Mc Donalds said nope, Media Markt said nope, Gasstation said nope, cinema said 1 extra, Grocery Store said nopetherefore nope never gonna happen here
What good are these features if you can't put an iPhone 6/6+ and carry it in your pocket like a wallet?
There's going to be a learning curve...
There's going to be a learning curve...
You probably will because the 5S has TouchID. The watch Apple Pay feature is for people with older phones to be able to still use Apple Pay because the watch has NFC.
(Notice how even the older phones still got the credit card icon on Passbook)
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Because it does more than help you spend money. It is also a smart watch.
Not so fast, at the Walmart I used to work at, and at the Walmart near my house, they have Verifone Mx915 with NFC enabled.
MCX (Walmart, Best Buy's etc standard) will fall like bricks in a tornado, because it just draws money from your checking account, bypassing any rewards programs, etc that your CC provider may provide.
You're lucky to get half that from Gazelle.
There's other shady buyers out there offering more but at your risk.
ebay may get you more but it will take time to sell, box up and ship.
Then you hope the buyer isn't some guy who freaks at the site of a small defect/nick and leave bad feedback.
If he sold it 3 weeks ago, then yes, $450 not be too far off.
Once the new iPhone model comes out, the price of previous models drop significantly.
The only provost with Apple Pay is that only iPhone user will be able to use it. So it can't become the standard. There may be 10 million iPhone 6/6+ in the wild now but they're are millions more android users and they're always will be. If Apple wants this to really catch on they need to find a way for it to work on Android phones.
If you are tapping an NFC enabled debit card at Walgreens, YOU HAVE TO PRESS CREDIT! Do NOT enter a PIN# or it will decline. I have learned that too, but if you press credit, NFC will work GREAT at Walgreens. I use it many times with my PayPass WF Debit.
NFC IS a standard, Apple will force more stores to have NFC, which means even the Android users will win, because if it supports Apple Pay, it'll support GW, and ISIS (Softcard) just fine...as well as the contactless cards given out by many banks like Wells Fargo, and US bank.
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i am not even sure where i can actually use credit cards besides for online shopping over here
therefore nope never gonna happen here
Does your country generally not allow you to use credit card at normal B&M stores? If your country has a "cash driven" society (mostly Italy etc), then Apple Pay will be of no help to you. For "plastic driven" societies like the US, Canada, UK, etc, Apple Pay will help you out.
I heard it can show the time & date.
You can most likely check text messages and other remedial tasks but your iPhone will need to be in close proximity for the watch to operate since the watch is just an extension of the iPhone.
The watch really offers nothing but convenience from someone pulling their iPhone out.
-There will be some health monitoring apps to utilize as well if you don't mind your health being mined for data to create your personal health profile.
direct access to my bank - NOT
WalMart's scheme seems to want either
1. pre-loaded cash, or
2. debit from my bank account
NO credit cards.
Given what has been going on at Target and Home Depot, why on earth would I want to allow WalMart access to my bank account ??
Anyone else out there feel the same way ??
WalMart's scheme seems to want either
1. pre-loaded cash, or
2. debit from my bank account
NO credit cards.
Given what has been going on at Target and Home Depot, why on earth would I want to allow WalMart access to my bank account ??
Anyone else out there feel the same way ??
No, only iPhone 6 supports NFC.
Hmm. Won't there be any sort of branding? How will we know if it takes Apple Pay?
What I'm a bit unclear on is if a store needs to explicitly show that they accept Apple Pay or will it just work with an NFC enabled payment terminal. The call out of specific merchants as partners coupled with the news that Walmart and someone else reportedly opted out made me think initially that stores would need to indicate explicitly that they accept Apple Pay. However, you go to the Apple Pay site and you see this:
That's what I understand to be a universal indication of NFC payments which leads me to believe the merchants specifically called out are just actively committing to NFC payment and since ive never seen NFC at Walmart theyre simply just refusing to adopt the tech period in favor of some other backwards wallet method no one will use. But then there's the whole Apple supposedly getting a cut of each Apple Pay transaction so then it seems even with an NFC terminal your phone may get rejected and thus you looking like an idiot as you wave your phone around if merchants who have NFC but i guess did not agree to Apple Pay. Add to that that Walgreens near me has had those NFC terminals for years now. I suppse they were just never turned on? I think you see my confusion. I'm anxious to try I but if I constantly need to wonder if it will work then I dont know. There are some things Apple REALLY needs to clear up when this thing launches.
That's what I understand to be a universal indication of NFC payments which leads me to believe the merchants specifically called out are just actively committing to NFC payment and since ive never seen NFC at Walmart theyre simply just refusing to adopt the tech period in favor of some other backwards wallet method no one will use. But then there's the whole Apple supposedly getting a cut of each Apple Pay transaction so then it seems even with an NFC terminal your phone may get rejected and thus you looking like an idiot as you wave your phone around if merchants who have NFC but i guess did not agree to Apple Pay. Add to that that Walgreens near me has had those NFC terminals for years now. I suppse they were just never turned on? I think you see my confusion. I'm anxious to try I but if I constantly need to wonder if it will work then I dont know. There are some things Apple REALLY needs to clear up when this thing launches.
Considering how they are touting their hardware security measures, don't expect them to allow non-iPhones to use Apple Pay.
yes but this is different. VISA and Mastercard have been waiting for NFC to catch on and will push it forward.
europe also currently has alot more NFC capable card readers than the USA.
i am not even sure where i can actually use credit cards besides for online shopping over here
therefore nope never gonna happen here
They're working with Debit as well so I wonder if that would be an option there? Germans don't tend to like using credit, right?