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  • Apple Pay Cash support arrives in iOS 11.2 beta as public testers receive second build

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    From the Apple support document:

    When someone sends you money, it's automatically and securely kept on your Apple Pay Cash card. You’ll see your new Apple Pay Cash card in Wallet, and you can use the money to send to someone, make purchases using Apple Pay in stores, within apps, and on the web, or transfer it from Apple Pay Cash to your bank account.
    SoliSendMcjakcaliStrangeDayslolliverwatto_cobra

  • Apple Pay Cash support arrives in iOS 11.2 beta as public testers receive second build

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    patchythepirate said:
    doc_powell said:
    I just activated Apple Pay Cash; there’s an option for you to transfer to your bank. 

    Thanks for that. The big question for me is.. can you transfer money from your bank account to (the private and secure) Apple Pay Cast?


    Yes, if you use a debit card supplied by your bank, you can use it to top up your Apple Pay Cash “card”.
    patchythepiratewatto_cobra

  • Updated ambient light, proximity sensors in 'iPhone 7' prohibit use of legacy cases

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    lkrupp said:
    mac_128 said:
    Ha -- so the rumor is no major substantive upgrade, AND the customer still has to replace all of their accessories? Even my SE can use all of my 5s accessories.
    i knew it, I knew it, I knew it! Somebody would bitch about this. That’s ALL that ever happens around here anymore. Nothing but bitching, disappointment, sadness, disgruntlement, and depression. Just do yourselves a favor and move to Android. You’ll be much happier.

    I must be in the minority of people looking forward to the next, and the next and the next..... iPhone, regardless of design or anything else, it's still going to be an improvement on the previous model. New tech is always awesome, especially when it's got an Apple badge on it ;)
    patchythepiratenolamacguy

  • Failure of Pixel 2 exposed a larger problem: Google's ads don't work

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    saltyzip said:
    The pixel 2 is only sold in a few countries which are Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Puerto Rico, Spain, United Kingdom and United States, so you have to take that into account with the sales numbers.

    At the end of the day the pixel 2 has been rated as a superb phone, and most of those educated in this business seems to carry one and use it as their main driver, stipulating the camera is incredible.

    Also Samsung makes prettier phones at the pixel 2 price range, the uneducated don't take into account software updates or unlimited photo and video backups and no bloat at the point of sale.

    Unless the sales staff advise their customers of this the customer will walk out with a Samsung everytime.

    If all that matters is someone in an industry praising a camera on a phone to get a person to buy it. Then we could just throw in Steven Soderbergh waffling on about how amazing the iPhone is and how he shot an entire movie on it. 

    Most of today’s top tier devices have great cameras for the average consumer. It’s just one small piece of a much larger pie. Encompassing everything from the phone hardware, it’s OS, software, services and broader device compatibility and integration. 

    I think the majority of people now know these devices. It’s not like ten years ago when you had to hold granny’s hand and explain what a mobile phone is. Heck even my 70 odd year old neighbor knows exactly what she wants in a smartphone. 

    The exceptions to the the rule will, of course, as you say buy whatever the idiot salesperson is trying to shift that particular week.  

    There’s not even quite so much platform switching as there was in the past. It’s not even brand loyalty as such, it’s knowing what you want. Those of us who do, make our choices based on a broad range of criteria and barring some monumental shift in needs or a company’s strategy, we’re going to fall into either iOS or Android. 

    Everything has it’s merits and its drawbacks, with both platforms. But I’d like to think we’re all capable and intelligent enough not to base our, not insignificant, spending on, well x person likes it, so it must be the best. 
    muthuk_vanalingam