p-dog

p-dog said:

mayfly said:

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

I exclusively use Apple Pay for 2 years now.

Best thing ever to just leave home without a wallet.

How do you pay at places that don't take Apple Pay? Like almost every gas station? Cash?

1. You go out with at least one physical credit card for those Luddite establishments.

2. You find a new place to purchase your gasoline.

When I was in the UK this summer visiting my family, I could pay for absolutely everything using Apple Pay with my Apple Watch, even cabbies and street vendors. And, because I have the Apple Card, I paid no foreign transaction fees. The US is so far behind and so regressive when it comes to payment systems and processing. The worst part are the sheep-like American consumers. I often stand in line at LiDL in the US (which, like any German retail outlet, definitely accepts Apple Pay) and I see people with iPhones wearing Apple Watches whipping out credit cards and punching in a PIN. How retrograde.

1. So you don't use Apple Pay exclusively after all.

 

I never said I did use Apple Pay exclusively - that was the original poster who claimed that. I live in the US, so 100% Apple Pay everywhere is, sadly, still a pipe dream. I HATE giving a credit card to a waiter, and explaining how wonderfully that process is handled in Europe usually elicits vacuous stares from people.