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Quote: Originally Posted by plovell NexusPhan suggested Bluetooth as a solution (I hadn't thought of that) and it seems that it could be a nice solution. The iPhone would do all the security work (dealing with the token etc) and the browser wou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by plovell Nope. Only tokens. And, as I mentioned an another post, I have no idea how they'll do on-line purchases. Doing it from your iPhone is easy but how does it work with a desktop? That will be interesting to s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX Only for items stored in iCloud Keychain, which now includes debit/CCs for online shopping in Safari, but for their ?Pay system they do not. They store nothing online. They are not intermediaries of the ca…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX It's more similar than it used to be, but Apple's explanation of their secure element on their SoC, including how Touch ID's "secure enclave" works, and the end-to-end solution Apple helped set up with t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX No I wouldn't, and if you followed my posting history here you'd know that. No, not the same thing. I didn't say Google was copying, although you're comments here regarding Google having this for years …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX That's my point. Google hasn't worked with the financial institutions. That's my point. Google didn't require a secure element and now it's some element on the NFC HW because Google doesn't have any vert…
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Quote: Originally Posted by plovell That's good if you like it. I do not, because I do not want Google to have all my credit card numbers in addition to everything else it collects about me. YMMV. It's a stretch to claim that using an EMVCo stan…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX What ?Pay does is exactly why no Google Wallet has not been popular or made waves with the average consumer. As noted by the special event, Apple's own website, and every fucking article on the ?Pay: …
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Quote: Originally Posted by plovell But these are Google tokens. Not bank tokens. Yes, which is a good thing. This way, you can use any card from any bank in the world and Google's encrypted tokens handle it. Apple has to make behind the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by plovell Then you need to read this. As far as I know, Apple is the only company doing it - for the moment. http://usa.visa.com/clients-partners/technology-and-innovation/visa-token-service/faqs.jsp? Google Wall…
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips No doubt everyone at Google is back at the drawing board seeing how they can copy everything as closely as possible. That's pretty hysterical that you think that. I can't find one single thing that Ap…
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Quote: Originally Posted by RadarTheKat I hadn't seen any info on its measured thickness. Thanks for that. 11mm is about .44 inches, compared with the Moto 360 at .5" and with its considerably larger face. I think the Apple watch compares favo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX I do know from using Passbook that it can be slowly at times because the iPhone does a whole lot more, but I assume there will be a way to quickly bring up NFC. Perhaps by doing a double-tap of the Home …
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I feel like this is an extremely easy solution. Do exactly what Google has done for years. Use the industry standard 2-step verification with something like Google Authenticator temporary auto generated passwords and don't allow security questions. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Corrections This isn't even remotely true. Google has started issuing some updates and patches via Google Play Services, but this happened all of twice this year. The last update is 5.0, from June 25. Check your phone t…
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Another fear mongering Apple Insider article. Google scanned every app in it's official app store. Found no instances of this exploit. Google updated automatically, behind the scenes every android device to add this exploit check to it's verify a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy It really doesn't matter either. Apple can recognize a good idea just as well as anyone else and they'd be silly to ignore one just because someone else thought of it first. Everyone borrows ideas from eve…
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Quote: Originally Posted by os2baba They demoed Swiftkey? Where? They added Swiftkey style keyboard. That's essentially like the Google Keyboard (which also does swiping). I still prefer Swiftkey which has a good 3 years head start on Goo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX All Google Play and side loaded apps, the way we're constantly told around here that apps are so much better than the App Store because they aren't curated, are at risk because there is no method for kee…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Andysol It also goes beyond simply learning your habits- you did watch the same Keynote that I did, correct? Did you not see how it gives different predictions based on the relationship of the recipient? Maybe your …