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Google Acquires Softcard Technology, Inks Deal With Carriers to Pre-Install Google Wallet on Android Devices
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Give credit to the easy to use fingerprint sensor
I've been on both Android and Apple. Switched to HTC One (M7 & M8) Google Play edition which had Google wallet. I liked it and used it, but the fact that I had to type my PIN made it no more useful than whipping out the credit card.
Aside from the larger screen and swype keyboards, I came back to Apple because of their fingerprint sensor and security of it. The fact that the fingerprint sensor in the iPhone is so simple and doesn't require me to swype my finger makes Apple Pay worth it. I've used it several times now, and absolutely love it. So Android fans can say that Apple copied it, but what Apple did was wait until it was simple and easy.
Apple Pay would not be as successful if had hadn't been for the fingerprint sensor.
I've been on both Android and Apple. Switched to HTC One (M7 & M8) Google Play edition which had Google wallet. I liked it and used it, but the fact that I had to type my PIN made it no more useful than whipping out the credit card.
Aside from the larger screen and swype keyboards, I came back to Apple because of their fingerprint sensor and security of it. The fact that the fingerprint sensor in the iPhone is so simple and doesn't require me to swype my finger makes Apple Pay worth it. I've used it several times now, and absolutely love it. So Android fans can say that Apple copied it, but what Apple did was wait until it was simple and easy.
Apple Pay would not be as successful if had hadn't been for the fingerprint sensor.
nah, they're too busy threatening their own partner companies with "consequences" who accept any form of payment other than CurrentC.
its a bad implementation that will likely never really reach critical market adoption.
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They're pilot testing in several stores, including a few Target stores.
Uhh, you do know that Google Wallet/NFC payments came to Android first and then iOS years later, right?
No matter how you choose to look at it, Apple is the follower in this regard.
Sorry to burst your little fanboy bubble with the truth.
And if you watch the WP 8 launch event, you'd see they intended to get into this space at the end of 2012. They just failed.
Exactly.
Apple has been the follower of tech for years now, and I'm constantly amused at all the posters here who claim others are following Apple.
iPhone 6+ and Apple Pay are classic "Me too!" examples from Apple, but yet continue to be ignored by the Apple-tinted glasses folk.
A stronger google wallet, and NFC payment systems make for a better Apple Pay.
A. competition is good
B. One NFC stand can support multiple pay options (as we have already seen with some places who are accepting apple pay - they were able to accept other NFC payments prior to Apple Pay)
A. competition is good
B. One NFC stand can support multiple pay options (as we have already seen with some places who are accepting apple pay - they were able to accept other NFC payments prior to Apple Pay)
It's not bad at all. The major carriers simply thought they could do it better and created a competing NFC payment system and locked Google Wallet out from their phones.
It's about time Google purchased it to stop all this nonsense.
So they're buying Softcard to kill it? Then replacing it with Google Wallet with the carriers' blessings?
Its almost as if the carriers had a relatively dead solution and created a situation where Google was forced to buy that dead solution off their hands.
That is why they are trying to get into the game quick after ApplePay launched. It isn't about marketshare rather the expectation that customer data will not be mined (in the case of ApplePay) precluding them from launching a service that does such that.
Google Acquires Softcard Technology, Inks Deal With Carriers to Pre-Install G...
It WAS a stupid gimick. You had to take out your phone, unlock, find the wallet app, launch it, maybe authenticate with another PIN layer. It was geek novelty, but ultimately useless and cards were easier
The way Apple implemented it, where the payment terminal wakes the phone into the ApplePay wallet and all you need is a mere finger touch... Is orders of magnitude improved in terms od user experience and convenience.
It WAS a stupid gimick. You had to take out your phone, unlock, find the wallet app, launch it, maybe authenticate with another PIN layer. It was geek novelty, but ultimately useless and cards were easier
The way Apple implemented it, where the payment terminal wakes the phone into the ApplePay wallet and all you need is a mere finger touch... Is orders of magnitude improved in terms od user experience and convenience.
They're not buying SoftCard to kill it. They're buying it to incorporate its technology into Google Wallet to strengthen the service.
This was a few years ago lol... Who would have thought iPhones would have fingerprint sensors coated with industrial sapphire
Okay, I must have been living in a sheltered corner of the Internet. Not trying to be sarcastic, just I hadn't really heard it mentioned, my bad
I can't help feeling that whatever Apple introduces some corner of the vast Android world will dig up a version or a handset somewhere which had the feature first.