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  • 'Fortnite' not coming back to iOS or Mac any time soon

    How much money does Epic stand to lose over 5 years? 
    By my back of the envelope math somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.75 billion dollars. During the trial it came out that Epic makes about $5 billion a year in revenue from Fortnite and that iOS accounted for 7% of that revenue. Seven percent of $5 billion would be about $350 million, times 5 years and you get $1.75 billion dollars. 
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  • If you use Google Chrome on your Mac, update it right now

    mercel said:
    Seriously, who’s dumb enough to use Google spyware on their Mac?  😂 
    And if you need Chrome installed just use Chromium. It’s the open source base Chrome is built on. It’s missing all of Google’s tracking junk.
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  • CVS continues Apple Pay snub, launches barcode-based 'CVS Pay'

    I loved ApplePay when it first came out. As things would happen, I was late paying my American Express bill. The card use was suspended for a few days. AP said the card could no longer be used as it was no longer valid. I waited two weeks after my card was working again and my AP still reported the card invalid. Well, darn. I sure don't need to fiddle with my phone when my credit card is right here in my hand. 

    Apple is is making money with Apple Pay. It's not a free service. It should work properly and efficiently. I am sure others have had the same issue. Hey, I keep asking why the Contacts app doesn't have familiarity fill-in? So, bottom line, if AP works for you that's nice. For me it's clunky and not worth the bother. I still have to carry my credit cards. OK, I'm used to it.

    With all due respect you were more than just a little late paying your bill if they suspended your card usage. You'd have to be months late. Amex don't even suspend card usage on their charge cards if you are late paying your bill. Amex was likely beginning the process of shutting your account down and sending you to collections at that point. This sounds more like an issue on Amex's end than a problem with Apple Pay.
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  • Study: Apple Pay at 9% adoption in US, lags far behind PayPal and traditional payment meth...


    benji888 said:
    “In some cases, swiping or inserting a credit card into a point of sale terminal is easier than pulling out an iPhone, unlocking it and tapping it on an NFC reader.”

    Only someone who has never used it could write this statement! Total B.S, it is quite the opposite!! And, as already stated, only steps are:

    1) get your iPhone or Watch out and place near NFC reader
    2) use touch or Face ID and that’s it, easiest way to pay.
    (Actually, only one step, get your iPhone out, keep thumb on home button while putting it near NFC reader.)

    rob53 said:
    Stores are still shutting off Apple Pay capability even though their POS hardware handles it. Home Depot is a perfect example. Until all POS hardware is forced to accept Apple Pay stores will continue to turn it off.  Of course users need to understand what they have and use it. 
    This is the problem in the US!! I do recall being able to use Apple Pay at Home Depot, but, they, like others, have changed POS systems or payment services and they only accept chip or swipe cards now. Some places accept some NFC payments, but not Apple Pay. Some places have dropped everything except swipe. Most food places haven’t updated at all, only swipe, which is ridiculous! It’s not because people weren’t using it, there is some other reason for it. I think paying through an app has become what they all want, that way they can track your purchases and use or even sell that information. I am totally against this, you have to put your credit card information into each app to use it this way...and you have more and more servers where your credit card (and other information) is stored and more and more chances of it being hacked. ...Kroger won’t accept Apple Pay but working on another system like this. They aren’t listening to what we want, but trying to do what they want.

    Unfortunately, there is no way to force merchants to accept Apple Pay. Only thing we can do is keep telling these companies we shop where we can use Apple Pay first, because we prefer the security, privacy and ease of use.
    It’s not possible to disable Apple Pay but still allow other contactless payments. The payment terminal has no way of knowing you’re using Apple Pay because it is using industry standard contactless EMV to send your payment information. To the payment terminal it looks like you’re just holding up a physical contactless credit card.

    Speaking of contactless cards, all the banks are finally rolling out contactless cards. It’s only a matter of time before the payment networks mandate it. Visa and MasterCard already mandate contactless payment support anywhere their cards are accept in most other developed countries. Once that is mandated and contactless is enabled everywhere here in the US Apple Pay support will come along with it. 
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  • Apple ditching plans for Israeli store after rejections by mall owners

    jbdragon said:
    I have to say, this is just more of Apple looking greedy. Apple is making a ton of money and doing that at the expense of everyone else. If Apple wanted to rent or build someplace, I'd do a 50% markup Apple Tax to Apple.
    Apple singlehandedly drives substantial foot traffic to places their retail stores are located so they can demand these kind of concessions. There are reportedly some malls here in this US that are kept afloat entirely by the customers the Apple Store brings; and without the Apple Stores these malls would likely have to close. 
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  • Apple Siri Remote now USB-C, as death knell tolls for Lightning

    Looks like apple might be eating crow on this after all, after saying lightening was the last iPhone port. They’re in a damned if you do damned if you don’t situation right now; usb-c makes sense, especially with government regulation overreach, but I remember people were completely freaking out when they switched to the lightening port, to a strange degree. 

    I’m looking forward to the day when we get a slimmer, sleeker phone that’s fully wireless. 
    Apple never said this. Go back and rewatch the keynote where they introduced it. They said Lightning was the connector for the next decade. It’s been a decade since it was released. Sounds to me like it’s being replaced right on schedule. 

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  • YouTube TV hikes monthly subscription price to $65

    You might as well just pay for cable at this point. You can probably get a promotional rate from the cable company for less than this.
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  • Apple Pay Express Transit users hit with unintended charges at New York City turnstiles

    sflocal said:
    This is an interesting dilemma.  If a person is carrying both NFC methods when walking through the gate, sounds like it's more a mistake of the rider than a technological issue.

    I suppose the system could check if more than one payment has been made on the same gate within milliseconds of each other, then it should only charge one method?
    MetroCards aren’t NFC based. They use a magnetic strip. The NFC based OMNY cards have not rolled out yet. The only NFC based payment method right now is with a mobile wallet or a contactless credit/debit card.

    What’s probably happening is people are swiping their MetroCard to pay but the NFC reader is picking up their phone in their pocket or purse. My guess this is because the MTA went the easiest route possible to retrofit the existing turnstiles which put the NFC reader at waist level, instead of on top of the turnstile gate where the MetroCard swipe reader is. If you keep your phone or your purse on your right side it could be easy to get too close and set it off. 
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  • Facebook's Nick Clegg says Apple privacy moves are 'commercial land grab'

    What a grimy little pimp. 
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  • Twelve years later, Apple is still trying to erase mac.com email addresses

    I got my @mac.com email address when I got .Mac for free as an Apple retail employee in college in 2007/2008. 

    Back then they had sales attach metrics and you had to have a certain percentage of all Mac (and iPhone after it came out) sales include a .Mac subscription. Same with AppleCare and ProCare, which was like a paid VIP membership for the Genius Bar. If you didn’t hit the metrics for those three things you’d get yelled at, written up, or possibly fired. It felt incredibly scummy trying to push these paid subscriptions on people who is usually didn’t need them and it was the reason I quit. Supposedly they got rid of the attach rate metrics a couple years after I left. 
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