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Banks in the U.K. Gearing Up for Apple Pay Launch as Santander Allows Customers to Register Cards
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I thought it was supposed to be tomorrow. Can that still be right? Surely we'd have heard something by now.
Maybe they're going for a low-key launch. Let the fanboys who keep an eye on MacRumors beta test it.
Spoke to someone at lidl and he was reading the instructions in the backroom earlier but said he didn't know when it was coming. I said tomorrow. He sort of acknowledged but I'm not sure if he truly knew. Maybe they'll switch it on after close of business tonight 10pm for most places.
I've read somewhere that it'll be made available by an iOS update. I think they based that on the US launch, but wasn't passbook new then? Perhaps it's still needed to make Pay show when the region's UK. I wonder when it might be released. Would like to think I won't be obsessively checking but I bet I will...
It would make sense because how would people know? they have to have some sort of pop up or annoucnement on the iPhone because not everyone is obsessed (like us)
johnnyturbouk
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Meh!, I abhor wetherspoons, subway, starbucks and pret as much as McD. At least McD does sprite light
Costa & Nandos,is most welcomed.
johnnyturbouk
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johnnyturbouk
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Not being able to use apple pay is a profoundly important tenet for whom I shall bank with!Forget him leaving his bank over something so small.
The man has decided to start eating at McDonald's just to use Apple Pay.
The horror!
Mymy, making a few assumptions here. Sprite light will more than quench my excitement to use apple-pay. As for the food, there is not much choice for us vegans there.
Pay if now Officially LIVE
None of my cards work! TSB & Tesco not on board yet. HSBC card goes through agreement to T&C's but then fails. Read on BBC news website that HSBC delayed until end of July.
For me then, a damp squib! :-(
For me then, a damp squib! :-(
Without visual clues or inflection in your voice it's almost impossible to convey sarcasm in a post/email. That's one of the reasons workers often end up in hot water with their employers.
Gets money of of pocket, gets phone out of pocket. Selects coinage, puts finger onto phone for Touch ID then 'wham'.
Claims the second option is easier - what am I missing???
If you are digging change out of your pocket and then having to count it then yes it will be quicker. I have found that it's also quicker then getting my wallet out of my pocket and then getting my card out of my wallet.
Perhaps Apple Pay is for the numerically challenged then as I can certainly make a visual calculation of money in my hand whilst handing it to the salesperson in only a matter of a couple of seconds.
Mind you I was schooled in pre-calculator pre-computer days when mental arithmetic was the norm.
Even though NFC chips in cards have been the norm in the UK for a number of years now there are still lots of places which still only have chip and pin. For those establishments Apple Pay or Google Pay is a long way off.
Unless the establishment is planning to update their terminals in which case it could not at all a long way off.
Not really, all I'm saying is that the process of using Apple pay is often quicker than counting cash. Counting cash isn't exactly hard but you would have to admit that most often than not counting is slower than waving your card or phone.
I certainly find the card touch to reader very easy indeed. Personally I think the card NFC takes some beating for speed and convenience. Given I always have my cards with me, plus they are light and convenient I have no plans to move to Android Pay when it arrives in the UK.
I can understand Apple Pay being popular in the U.S. as they don't appear to have the security of chip and pin or NFC cards, at least not as a wide distribution, as far as I know.
NFC cards are fairly quick and convenient, probably the most so before Apple pay came out. It did though have some downfalls, not that Apple pay doesn't have downfalls either, it is.
Generally though from my experience Apple pay is quicker than NFC cards.