You have no idea what this will unleash. If it gets to the UK we'll have Barclays trying (again) to shove their garbage NFC solutions down our throats with a toilet scrub. This is a portal to hell
You have no idea what this will unleash. If it gets to the UK we'll have Barclays trying (again) to shove their garbage NFC solutions down our throats with a toilet scrub. This is a portal to hell
Good job the UK is well served with many options for banking. Barclays are scum.
If any of banks i use decide to pull away from Apple Pay and will try to force me to use their app only for paying, bye bye… i don’t want any extra app for paying. I want all my cards in one wallet, like i have in a physical world, from where i choose which card i use. As i am not carrying three separate wallets for each card…
And that means you have choice.
There is no problem with that but what you want might not be what others want.
My wife doesn't want only one option forced on her for contact less phone payments. That is the current situation.
She wants choice. Is there any reason she should be denied that by Apple?
Your wife has a solution to her woes…buy an Android phone. No products will ever be everything to everybody. Manufacturers are the ones who should decide the features their products have.
That isn't a solution.
The solution, as may well appear soon, is simple: choice.
You have no idea what this will unleash. If it gets to the UK we'll have Barclays trying (again) to shove their garbage NFC solutions down our throats with a toilet scrub. This is a portal to hell
How would that be done?
Currently, the only 'forcing' is done by Apple as Apple's solution (with its cut of every transaction) is the only one allowed.
Once users have choice, how could they be forced to choose one solution over another?
You have no idea what this will unleash. If it gets to the UK we'll have Barclays trying (again) to shove their garbage NFC solutions down our throats with a toilet scrub. This is a portal to hell
How would that be done?
Currently, the only 'forcing' is done by Apple as Apple's solution (with its cut of every transaction) is the only one allowed.
Once users have choice, how could they be forced to choose one solution over another?
For example, by making Apple Pay onboarding difficult in one way or another (e.g. manufactured 20 minute wait over the phone) for their cardholders and making bPay much easier to onboard. And before you know it every bank does that and presto, you have a myriad of badly done cr-apps that compete for your NFC chip and take the opportunity to collect more data. Apple here is like a professional mobster keeping the chaotic and opportunistic petty criminals in check and demanding a cut of the proceeds. It's a racket but the alternative is worse.
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The solution, as may well appear soon, is simple: choice.
Currently, the only 'forcing' is done by Apple as Apple's solution (with its cut of every transaction) is the only one allowed.
Once users have choice, how could they be forced to choose one solution over another?
Apple here is like a professional mobster keeping the chaotic and opportunistic petty criminals in check and demanding a cut of the proceeds. It's a racket but the alternative is worse.