Leaked Images Reveal Google Working on Apple Cash Card Competitor

[I7guy]

Potential major difference is Google card will support contactless payment which is of benefit with COVID-19 and avoiding touching publicly used surfaces while Apple card isn't contactless. Now I'm interested.

During this period of time, handling my wallet and credit card are two more things to wipe down. Use Apple Pay and when I get home, phone goes into phone soap. Contactless pay or not.

 

[mi7chy]

I think Apple designed it that way with the intention that you’d primarily use your iPhone for the contactless payment transactions versus using the card itself.

Card is my primary method of payment while phone is last resort backup. Too risky pulling out phone and dropping it just to make a payment. Plus, card is easier to sanitize and free to replace while it costs up to $329 to replace iPhone screen.

 

[I7guy]

Card is my primary method of payment while phone is last resort backup. Too risky pulling out phone and dropping it just to make a payment. Plus, card is easier to sanitize and free to replace while it costs up to $329 to replace iPhone screen.

Just goes to show, each of us has different use cases. Phone is out while I'm shopping anyway, as that is where my shopping list is so no pulling out phone. Screen damage is why I have AC+ with damage protection. Phone Soap is great for those who want to UV sanitize their phones.

 

[MisterSavage]

Just goes to show, each of us has different use cases. Phone is out while I'm shopping anyway, as that is where my shopping list is so no pulling out phone. Screen damage is why I have AC+ with damage protection. Phone Soap is great for those who want to UV sanitize their phones.

Agree on all parts including the phone soap. I pull my phone out all the time throughout the day. Wouldn't hesitate to use it to pay if I didn't have an Apple Watch.

 

[mi7chy]

Screen damage is why I have AC+ with damage protection.

Good luck during lockdown.

 

[I7guy]

Good luck during lockdown.

I have two spare 5s (plus a new ipad) should I need them. I'm covered in the event of a catastrophe. There is always send in by mail.

 

[russell_314]

Card is my primary method of payment while phone is last resort backup. Too risky pulling out phone and dropping it just to make a payment. Plus, card is easier to sanitize and free to replace while it costs up to $329 to replace iPhone screen.

Too risky to pull out a phone to pay? Do you think about the risk every time you pull out your phone? Perhaps only take it out over carpet? I take my phone out and use it anytime I want because to me it would be wasteful to buy a product and not get full use out of it. I take it out when I'm bored to play a game while standing over concrete. Of course I have a case to protect it because I can be a klutz and have dropped it in the past.
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I have two spare 5s (plus a new ipad) should I need them. I'm covered in the event of a catastrophe. There is always send in by mail.

Same I have my old cracked iPhone 7 Plus as a backup. While ugly it works perfectly. If that one fails I have the old style iPhone SE that I still use as an iPod.

 

[zinacef]

Just goes to show, each of us has different use cases. Phone is out while I'm shopping anyway, as that is where my shopping list is so no pulling out phone. Screen damage is why I have AC+ with damage protection. Phone Soap is great for those who want to UV sanitize their phones.

What is this “phone soap”?

 

[I7guy]

What is this “phone soap”?

Check this link:

UV Light Phone Sanitizers and Universal Chargers

PhoneSoap is the first and only phone charger that uses UV light to disinfect your phone, while also charging your phone. Join the clean revolution today!

www.phonesoap.com

 

[ct2k7]

It would be nice to see Apple Card expand to other markets other than the US, but that’ll never happen.

 

[mi7chy]

What is this “phone soap”?

Maybe these gimmicks which the manufacturer claim is good for influenza A but nothing about COVID-19.

https://www.phonesoap.com/collections/all

 

[cmwade77]

Maybe these gimmicks which the manufacturer claim is good for influenza A but nothing about COVID-19.

https://www.phonesoap.com/collections/all

There is a lot of research that seems to indicate that UV light can be used to kill Covid-19, so there is a very strong chance that this would indeed work.

Coronavirus: California researchers look into UV light to help kill COVID-19

Can ultraviolet lights help kill COVID-19 on surfaces? Here's what researchers found.

www.google.com

 

[I7guy]

Maybe these gimmicks which the manufacturer claim is good for influenza A but nothing about COVID-19.

https://www.phonesoap.com/collections/all

Maybe it’s not a gimmick.

 

[acorntoy]

Card is my primary method of payment while phone is last resort backup. Too risky pulling out phone and dropping it just to make a payment. Plus, card is easier to sanitize and free to replace while it costs up to $329 to replace iPhone screen.

Agree, since the Pandemic started i've been using cards only. As its easier to separate and then clean etc. Used to use my AP since id be looking at my phone in line but now I don't touch it until I'm back in the car and my hands are sanitized again.

 

[Virinprew]

apple should make a dildo just to see if google will follow.

Oh, Google will follow alright and collect the data.

 

[alexandr]

Oh, Google will follow alright and collect the data.

how deep is your love?)))

 

[MisterSavage]

how deep is your love?)))

I really need to know.

 

[alexandr]

I really need to know.

ok, google.

 

[kmann1983]

Who really cares though? Implementation and software are all that matter.

Clearly plenty of people here care, for some bizarre reason. Most likely fanboi-ism and the passionate desire to feel superior to others.

Guys, it's ok to admit that Apple isn't perfect and always ahead of the curve. I promise.

 

[LizKat]

I'll pass on a Google card. They've been asking me periodically for a mobile number now for around two years and counting (I live in a 400-square-mile dead zone) and the option to "try another way" to create a 2FA email account recovery scenario is a dead link, so either they've coded an endless loop or else the routine that says "She ain't givin' it up, let's pull the plug on her setup" isn't working right. When one of my gmail setups goes south, they can keep it. I'm not driving up on some not very handy mountaintop with a laptop and a phone on board to try to recover a gmail setup anyway.

So why would I trust the Great Data Miners with a link to a bank account? When will their TOS fine print change one more time and they cop to having decided to sell that info too?

Wow. Maybe I need to walk around the backyard before the next late spring snow in the forecast makes that impossible yet again. The covid-19 isolation stress supposedly doesn't affect people who are used to working alone. Not sure that's quite on the money 🙃🤪🥴🤡🙀💥⛄

 

[MisterSavage]

I'll pass on a Google card. They've been asking me periodically for a mobile number now for around two years and counting (I live in a 400-square-mile dead zone) and the option to "try another way" to create a 2FA email account recovery scenario is a dead link, so either they've coded an endless loop or else the routine that says "She ain't givin' it up, let's pull the plug on her setup" isn't working right. When one of my gmail setups goes south, they can keep it. I'm not driving up on some not very handy mountaintop with a laptop and a phone on board to try to recover a gmail setup anyway.

Do you have a landline phone? Instead of getting a text you can get a voice call for your temporary code.

 

[LizKat]

Do you have a landline phone? Instead of getting a text you can get a voice call for your temporary code.

Thanks, yes. I expected that to pop up as an option in "try another way" but the link's a no-op at present or else Firefox is doing one of its silent but paternalistic safeguard routines. I tried w/ Safari too so i dunno.

Well I do have WiFi calling, so I could in fact give Google the mobile number they want, but that doesn't mean I'd necessarily be able to use the phone in that way sometime if the gmail setup went south and I had to try to recover it. I'm moving the one correspondent that matters on that setup to a new account from a different provider I use, and then if it goes south and I can't recover it via a 1F recovery - an email address, then so be it.

(I don't mean to derail this thread from the Google card rumors...)

 

[Baymowe335]

Clearly plenty of people here care, for some bizarre reason. Most likely fanboi-ism and the passionate desire to feel superior to others.

Guys, it's ok to admit that Apple isn't perfect and always ahead of the curve. I promise.

The Apple Card was implemented correctly, unlike Google. This isn't about fanboi-ism or anything else. Objectively, Apple implements technology and products a lot better than Google. It's not even close and there are countless examples.

Google is a great company and I own their shares, but they suck at product development and poorly implement many ideas beyond their core ad business.

 

[MisterSavage]

Thanks, yes. I expected that to pop up as an option in "try another way" but the link's a no-op at present or else Firefox is doing one of its silent but paternalistic safeguard routines. I tried w/ Safari too so i dunno.

Well I do have WiFi calling, so I could in fact give Google the mobile number they want, but that doesn't mean I'd necessarily be able to use the phone in that way sometime if the gmail setup went south and I had to try to recover it. I'm moving the one correspondent that matters on that setup to a new account from a different provider I use, and then if it goes south and I can't recover it via a 1F recovery - an email address, then so be it.

(I don't mean to derail this thread from the Google card rumors...)

The good thing is if you are able to get their 2FA set up they'll let you generate 10 or backup codes in case you lose your primary way of getting one time codes.