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Apple Pay With iPhone 6 Demoed in McDonald's Purchase

eat me said:
I don't even care about ApplePay process in this video, but the guy did not say thank you or please even once during the whole video. Where are people's manners? I don't know, maybe it's normal in US, but it struck me as subtle douchebaggy.
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Everyone is not that way. I always greet the counter person by name, smile. Please and thank you are definite. People dealing with the public have challenging jobs. Showing appreciation from one human to another is important.

The video was to demo the new payment service. Maybe the customer was preoccupied by that.
 
joneill55 said:
Send you a confirmation 5 seconds. Start a smart Email folder in your mail program of choice (apple mail for me) and send'm on down for your records. Could it get any easier??? Only if someone else was picking up the tabs!
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At Walgreens I also got a physical receipt. The confirmation in Passbook was just the total amount charged.
 
farmkittie said:
I thought we didn't even need to have the phone unlocked. Maybe he just did it that way to see the processing. But with phone locked you'd just wave the phone that you're carrying anyway. This is a time saver as opposed to getting my wallet out, finding the card, pulling card out, signing, putting card back in wallet, wallet back in backpack or pocket. I'd rather just wave phone.
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"getting my wallet out"
You still have to get your iPhone out.

"finding the card"
LOL...Why does everyone suddenly need to "find" their card in their wallet? If you want to select your card then to compare, you need to: unlock your iPhone, launch the app, select your card (iPhone loses)

"pulling card out"
You have to put your finger on the fingerprint sensor.

"signing"
You don't need to sign unless you're spending $100+. That's a lot of Big Macs. Let's be real here—this step was here just to make credit card transactions look worse. This isn't even a step in the process.

"putting card back in wallet, wallet back in backpack or pocket."
You still need to put your iPhone back.

At best, it's a wash. If you want to pick your card, it's more complicated when you use an iPhone.
 
I tried to use it today and ended up looking like an idiot. :rolleyes: his transaction was way too slow and no indication that it's even doing anything. My transactions just didn't work.
 
Fusion79 said:
You can set a default card in the app. If you want to use a different card you need to select it in passbook.
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Not true. If you have multiple cards setup within Passbook/Apple Pay, it displays the default to pay when you are near the NFC device and it shows the others close to the bottom of the same screen. Tapping the other card pulls it up as the card to be used for said transaction; all from lock screen.
 
Heh. This is exactly what the first people with Google Wallet did, back in 2011... three years ago.

Micky D's should do an ad:

"McDonald's - the first choice of people new to NFC payments!"

farmkittie said:
This is a time saver as opposed to getting my wallet out, finding the card, pulling card out, signing, putting card back in wallet, wallet back in backpack or pocket. I'd rather just wave phone.
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Yep. As I've said before, for years my daughter loved using her Android phone to make payments when her son was just a baby. She could hold him in one arm, while paying for stuff at the pharmacy, gas station, fast food, Home Depot, etc with her phone in her other hand.

Fusion79 said:
It's not just speed. When I use ApplePay I am not giving my CC number to McDonalds POS system to get hacked or skimmed.
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Yes, it's good protection against skimming.

Of course, if you have ever swiped that card at McDonald's... or any other place you plan to use Apple Pay..., then the merchant already has the number stored away, so it's still vulnerable to someone hacking their servers.
 
So far only a Capital One credit card is working for me. Chase Amazon.com Visa not working and USAA American Express not working. The Chase card gives an error that the merchant does not support it yet. The American Express is giving an error that it cannot validate at this time.
 
"I O S 8 dot 1", do Americans really talk like this? It's 8 "point" 1, as in decimal point. It's not hard. Period. (by which I mean full-stop, as said by English speaking people from a land where periods come out of ladies on a monthly basis).
 
greytmom said:
It's not about speed, people. For those of us who don't like to carry a lot of cash, it's about security. As a victim of identity theft (twice) I'm more than excited to have :apple:Pay.
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It IS about speed. Normally I'd have to find and then take out my gigantic wallet and look through 20+ credit cards to find the one I want to use. That takes about 2-3 minutes. Then I have to hold the card correctly, place it on the reader, and pull it through the reader. Most of the time it doesn't work and I have to keep doing it over and over because the credit card system is terrible. Then when it's all done, I have to open up my huge wallet, stuff the card back in there so I can't find it next time I need it, close up my wallet, decide which pocket to put my wallet back in, and then push my wallet into my pocket. Credit cards are terribly slow.

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amirite said:
This is such a poor video of choice, MR. Please replace asap.

First of all it's awkward as hell, and secondly they messed up the whole process anyway.
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Reality hurts, doesn't it?

I'm sure we'd rather see Jony Ive do it in a scripted video from Apple.
 
So much negativity in this thread...wow!

I guess let's just not move forward, let's stick with the old way because it's always been used..right? Wouldn't want to move forward at all.

God forbid there be a few snags with a new system or anything, right?

McDonald's is bad, ok, we get it. Shop somewhere else. A LOT of people do like it, though.

Don't like this new :apple:Pay? Don't use it! Just don't complain ten or twenty years from now when it's the norm and you're still holding out.

Damn...
 
cashier never see your #

Peace said:
Not only that but the cashier never sees the numbers or name on your card.
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Yep! I like this fact that the cashier never see my card nor my number....
New York car rental counter guy stole my credit chard # and racked up over 500 on it with a week of me using it there to pay for a oneway rental to California.
 
I just wanted to admit, I was wrong. All those people who said, the iPhone would never make it into the corporate market, you were correct. All of the people who said, BlackBerry would rule the business cellphone market forever, you were right.

If things keep going like this, I guess my only option will be a an Amazon phone. (I guess, the war between Amazon and BlackBerry is the only thing keeping competition in the market.)
 
Ha, who was that? That video was so awkward I'm now going to have to go into hiding because it feels like I embarrassed myself.

I think the tech is neat but it's not for me. I'd much rather bring out my debit card and enter my pin than my expensive phone.
 
I had a contest with my buddy. To make it fair, we both had payment systems ready in hand—he had his iPhone 6 w/iOS 8.1 in his hand and I had my credit card in my hand.

I handily beat him every single time. I had the card swiped and transaction completed before TouchID authenticated and he got the phone to the reader.

We ate a lot of 4-piece Chicken McNuggets today.

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Dagless said:
Ha, who was that? That video was so awkward I'm now going to have to go into hiding because it feels like I embarrassed myself.

I think the tech is neat but it's not for me. I'd much rather bring out my debit card and enter my pin than my expensive phone.
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Stop it! You're making too much sense!

Don't you know that credit cards are now incredibly difficult to use and slow?
 
Jimrod said:
"I O S 8 dot 1", do Americans really talk like this? It's 8 "point" 1, as in decimal point. It's not hard. Period. (by which I mean full-stop, as said by English speaking people from a land where periods come out of ladies on a monthly basis).
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You must be real fun at parties. :rolleyes:
 
Jeebuz.

Apple fans aka Americans,

For your health sake ... Test this and buy something healthy at Target or Wegmans or Whole Foods.

Smh.

Make this event a real game-changer and not some sort of life-threatening slick purchases.
 
Have a Chase credit card. They don't support Apple Pay "at this time" (yes I called customer service). I also tried to register my debit card.."your bank doesn't support..." Called my credit union..they've never heard of Apple Pay. So much for my big chance to use my new $600 credit card replacement device :mad:
 
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