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Home Depot to Officially Support Apple Pay Following Retail System Upgrade

Dekema2 said:
Well that's good to hear. One less company to cross off of of my "no shop zones" list.
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I would never stay away from a good store just because they didn't play Apple's game.

I got my iPhone 6 on day-one and as soon as Apple Pay was operational I put my cards into it. That was one of the principal reasons that I traded in my iPhone 5c for the 6. Oddly enough I still have yet to use Apple Pay to this very day! It still sounds like a great way to pay though.
 
Time to see what all the fuss is about. I don't go to McDonalds. And unless explicitly accepted, i don't try on RFC terminals, because it ends up failing, and i look like a jackass for holding up the line.

Will someone print out a bunch of penny-sized stickers and when it works, apply the sticker to the terminal?
 
I'm confused. Apple Pay worked at Metro Atlanta Home Depots with my linked Visa card just fine up until the last few weeks. Why do they need to do a "system upgrade" to make it work again? Why did they do something to break it in the first place?

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scottsjack said:
I would never stay away from a good store just because they didn't play Apple's game.
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When we're talking about a retailer that allowed 56 million credit card numbers to be stolen, I wouldn't trust them with my actual card information again for a long time, if ever. Being able to use Apple Pay at Home Depot up until the last few weeks allowed me to shop there with confidence. I'm glad they're restoring Apple Pay functionality.
 
Been using my apple pay at the local Home Depot in Coeur d'Alene, ID for months. Hope the upgrade didn't break it.
 
tmiw said:
I'm confused as to why it needs to be disabled while they're doing this "upgrade", especially since it was working at most of them for months.
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This is really the point.

It's all well and good that official Apple Pay support is coming, but it sounds like they're botching this PoS upgrade. You shouldn't have a situation where customers find out (at the checkout, no less) that they can no longer pay the way they have been at that store. That's bad management.
 
This is great news!

Only problem is that Apple Pay likely won't accept Home Depot Consumer Credit Cards which is the only card I use when shopping there :mad:
 
Nickerbocker said:
What baffles my mind is why Apple Pay on the iPad Air 2. What can you really do with it? It bugged me awhile to set it up so I can use it to buy from the App Store... ok, I tried to set it up and it wouldn't accept my credit card at the time (unsupported bank or something). Ok... But what difference would it make if I buy an App from the App Store using the CC info that Apple has on file for my Apple ID vs. using Apple Pay?
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You can use Apple pay when ordering from store apps,such as the Target app.
It would be funny to take it to McDonalds a pay with it though...
 
mainstreetmark said:
Time to see what all the fuss is about. I don't go to McDonalds. And unless explicitly accepted, i don't try on RFC terminals, because it ends up failing, and i look like a jackass for holding up the line.
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But you don't mind sounding like a jackass admitting on here that you refuse to wave your phone in front of an NFC terminal that has been confirmed months ago to support Apple Pay, on the off chance that it might not work and you'd look stupid for it, somehow? There's a Sprouts I go to that specifically takes Apple Pay, but it declines me every time I use it (still takes the same card in plastic, though.) They told me it fails about half of the time.

What else do you stop yourself from doing with your life due to the risk that people might make fun of you?
 
E.Lizardo said:
You can use Apple pay when ordering from store apps,such as the Target app.
It would be funny to take it to McDonalds a pay with it though...
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I used it on my iPhone 6 Plus on Etsy last night to order some beard shampoo and an iPhone case. Quick as hell.
 
mdelvecchio said:
except it isnt true. CVS has NFC but blocked AP.
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Well sort of….CVS disabled their NFC terminals in their stores so that people couldn't use ApplePay…and preventing customers from using NFC Master/Visa cards.

I have a NFC mastercard that worked there, but when they said they'd not use ApplePay, they turned their entire NFC system off (as my NFC MasterCard stopped working at the same time…as I was checking).
 
scottsjack said:
I would never stay away from a good store just because they didn't play Apple's game.

I got my iPhone 6 on day-one and as soon as Apple Pay was operational I put my cards into it. That was one of the principal reasons that I traded in my iPhone 5c for the 6. Oddly enough I still have yet to use Apple Pay to this very day! It still sounds like a great way to pay though.
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When they had their security breach, I had two credit cards and a debit card compromised, and the banks notified me about it, not Home Depot, I still shop there via Apple Pay ONLY.
 
Are any others getting bored, and even irritated, at these MacRumors stories each time another corporation adopts Apple Pay?

There are hundreds of thousands of corporations out there. Surely, each time one adopts Apple Pay, it does not warranty a story.

What's wrong with MacRumors having fewer stories on a slow-news day?
 
hotpotato123 said:
Are any others getting bored, and even irritated, at these MacRumors stories each time another corporation adopts Apple Pay?

There are hundreds of thousands of corporations out there. Surely, each time one adopts Apple Pay, it does not warranty a story.

What's wrong with MacRumors having fewer stories on a slow-news day?
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It's a story because HD dropped NFC support, then brought it back.
 
Fenez said:
I pay with cash.... I'm never that pressed for time.
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I prefer not to carry cash. Unnecessary with appropriate payment alternatives. It is easy to lose cash, hand over the wrong notes and not realise (especially if traveling) and increases the likelihood of being mugged.

If only :apple: pay would come to Oz I would be happy.
 
Apple Pay Suceptibility to RFID Amplifier Attack?

You've probably seen it on the internet how car thieves are now able to use a cheap $100 RF amplifier to steal cars by amplifying the "call and respond" RFID signals between a car and the RFID enabled key that may be within 100 feet of the parked car, say on your coffee table. This fools the car into thinking the key is within inches of the car, and unlocks the car for thieves. Thieves with RFID amps can access any vehicle that is within 100ft of the RFID key, unless that key is stored in a Faraday cage.

Has Apple or any other NFC based schemes looked into if this might effect the interactions between ApplePay Terminals and iPhones and iWatches? Will we have to carry our iPhones and iWatches around in Faraday cages to be safe? Here's an article on the attack method: https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/332.pdf
 
springsup said:
This is really the point.

It's all well and good that official Apple Pay support is coming, but it sounds like they're botching this PoS upgrade. You shouldn't have a situation where customers find out (at the checkout, no less) that they can no longer pay the way they have been at that store. That's bad management.
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If I had to guess this is a back end upgrade so their systems will recognize Apple Pay and hopefully not require signatures or even reciepts.
 
Hope the transition is fast.

I've been using Apple Pay at my local Home Depot every time I go there. Considering they've had their readers hacked in the past, being able to use Apple Pay at Home Depot makes me feel significantly more comfortable.
 
Busted as of the most recent visits

I'd been using ApplePay regularly at HD. Last weekend it didn't work. As other folks noted, it had been fine. The terminal still shows the symbol and acknowledges the phone sending data, but then the clerk says the system is telling him the card must be swiped. Haven't tried the chip slot, but will next time to see if they've gotten that working yet.
 
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