We all know about Samsung and their childish jabs at Apple and their products. Just a few minutes ago, I watched their latest commercial for Samsung Pay. It shows a bunch of people doing exactly what you do with Apple Pay, and about several transactions in, it shows an iPhone user trying to make a purchase, but they just hold and wave the iPhone over the thing. After viewing, I was just like "really?"
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New commercial is asinine.
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Samsung be like: They see me Trollin...they hatin
That doesn't seem like that is the one he was describing.
No, the one I saw just showed a bunch of people holding their phones over the scanner things
Samsung Pay can be used on both NFC card readers and regular magnetic strip readers. Apply pay can only use NFC. It is a valid point and should be a consideration.
You obviously have no idea what Samsung Pay is. It's not like Android Pay or Apple Pay where you use NFC, it used the magnetic stripe so you can touch it to ANY terminal that you swipe a credit card on, even if it doesn't support NFC.
LMBO!
The only thing Samsung has now that I would like to have is how they charge that new phone. That's sweet. Other than that, they never talk about how good their phone is. They only talk about how they are better than Apple.
If you have to trash another company as opposed to just selling your greatness...
I am curious, does everyone around here just ignore fact because of a brand?
Apply Pay can be used in 700,000 locations
Samsung Pay in over 30 Million
How is that asinine or, really? "pure retardation"?
Apply Pay can be used in 700,000 locations
Samsung Pay in over 30 Million
How is that asinine or, really? "pure retardation"?
To be fair to the posters that commercial really doesn't relate that.
I don't mind the commercial, tbh. Just highlights something that competing product can't do or can't do well.
How does Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) technology work?
MST technology generates changing magnetic fields over a very short period of time. This is accomplished by putting alternating current through an inductive loop, which can then be received by the magnetic read head of the credit card reader. The signal received from the device emulates the same magnetic field change as a mag stripe card when swiped across the same read head. LoopPay works within a 3-inch distance from the read head. The field dissipates rapidly beyond that point, and only exists during a transmission initiated by the user.
Thanks Surf Donkey. Really seems like a good solution that ensures they get a lot of penetration. It's a shame Apple didn't move forward with that technology first.
The technology isn't pure retardation. It is the way they go about advertising their sh*tty products. They just have to include an iPhone in their ad and mock it.
This Samsung Pay feature is super cool and I wish the iPhone could do it at traditional terminals as well. Good job, Samsung.
You're right. They bought LoopPay which developed the technology, and it is pretty cool.
https://www.looppay.com/faqs/
That said, NFC is clearly the future and this MST (Magnetic Secure Transmission) technology is just a stopgap measure that allows new phones to work with old payment terminals. The description above even sounds archaic, right? The phone generates a magnetic field to fake-out an older magnetic credit card reader into thinking a card is being swiped.
There are also some limitations to MST - any terminal that requires a physical trigger to activate the magnetic reader won't work with MST. Gas stations are the most common, and many older credit card swiping terminals.
So, LoopPay is pretty cool, and it was definitely a good move by Samsung to buy it. But in the long run, it won't make a difference.
iirc, the whole magnet strip thing will soon be moot as most retailers are mandated to switch to chip and pin or face fines
