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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum Not so much if you include lobbyists/politicians in the mix ... They've just institutionalized the processes! How true! We precisely had one ludicrous story just a couple of days ago over here in …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum Ha! There are some things that that just won't work with ApplePay ... and maybe not even a credit card. […] ApplePay -- No Way! So quaint. The world was a funny place full of anecdotes like t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by imt1 When you shop online, you do it via the stores App. Is that store enables Apple Pay, in their App, you are presented with Apple pay as an option and you use touch id to authorize the transaction and your uniqu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ibeam That is probably better, however, not as elegant. When dining at a fine restaurant the payment is traditionally handled very discreetly and almost unnoticed by the other guests. Bringing a mobile device to the t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ibeam I'm not understanding your message. I'm not sure how typical restaurant payments are conducted in Europe since I never took notice when I was there. We only ate at small lunch spots where there was no gratuity…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX How quickly we forget HeartBleed. I thought Apple libcrypto was immune to HeartBleed because it was not based on the OpenBSD code.
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Quote: Originally Posted by ibeam If you are shopping online, you have no idea whether the merchant is storing your card info or not. Some just pass it through to the gateway and some store to later be stolen by hackers. In either case they hav…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ibeam How does it work at a restaurant? In the CC world, you can make a pending transaction without executing it. Normally, the restaurant verifies the payment first but amends it after the client adds the gratuity. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX If your ApplePay device also has to be online, not just the mercahnt's syatem, when making a payment then that is a horrible system that will not stop CC and/or cash from being carried. I concur with a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 +++ for the word effulgent. As for the rest of your comment I will cut you some slack, in general though if you can't see anything due to the lack of light it is considered to be black. Yes but those star…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich I'm still cloudy as to how Apple will make Apple Pay work online. If it's all reliant on new hardware, it'll take a while to roll out. If the token used is relatively short, it could be manually ent…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich Unless there is a GPS antenna watch band that we haven't seen yet. ???? Yeah, I thought about that. But apart the stainless steel one… And then, it touches the skin all the way round. Remember iPhone…
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An article about Apple's strategy. http://www.wbs.ac.uk/wbs2012/assets/WBS_Core_Edition_One_Quantum%20Strategy%20at%20Apple%20Inc_56-59%20(3).pdf
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Quote: Originally Posted by ThePixelDoc - surely no need to apologize... my snark was also a bit too heavy(!) I'm actually an American living and working here for 25 years come the 30th of September. Well actually... the first few weeks w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin They can always add GPS before launch though. Not sure they can. GPS reception requires an antenna (because the signal is very weak) and I seriously doubt there is space enough in the device to fit one. It is …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin I don't know why they call it space grey either, space is black. Space is in fact about as black as you can get given that it's black due to a complete absence of light reflecting off anything. Moon grey woul…
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Quote: Originally Posted by acgmph You're underestimating the United States Granted. Tot ziens
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Quote: Originally Posted by acgmph For Apple to be able to replace wallets, they need universal acceptance, hence my comment that without Amazon this would be close to impossible. This won’t be possible even if Amazon would join. No countr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by radster360 So, the DAN is created when you add the credit card to the device and stored securely and not recreated every time. When the payment is made at the register, the DAN is used and not your credit card informa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BestKeptSecret Apple knows what colours look good and I know whatever they select will look great! I'd like to buy a transparent one. I’m sure with the LED backlighting of both the LCD and the keyboard, it'd look …