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tjwolf said:

That 7 percent relates to the Apple Card, not ApplePay itself.  To be honest, the Apple Card doesn't really add all that much security over other credit cards - pretty much just "security by obscurity" (not printing card #, expiration date, and CVV on the physical card).  Every credit card added to Apple Wallet enjoys the same increased ApplePay security.

Yes, but opinion stands. People don’t care about their personal and financial security when it comes to Apple Card or Apple Pay, which the article mentions, is slow to catch on. Yes, security no better than other chip credit cards. Keep in mind, chip credit cards has reduced in-store fraud for stores using chip readers. Online transactions is still a problem, but third party solutions like Albine Burr will help.

matrix077 said:

Like I said, a big missed opportunity users can’t apply for one right away after the keynote. 

I’ll get one immediately when I can. It ticks all the boxes for me. 

I don’t think there’s going to be any missed sales opportunities on Apple’s part. When iPhone users like a new product announcement, they’ll buy whenever it’s available. After all, the first iPhone wasn’t available when Jobs first introduced it and sales went okay.

AppleInsider said:

 Only 7 percent thought the card's privacy and security features were the most important part

I just shake my head at this, no matter how many security breaches at Target, Facebook, etc. and people’s personal experiences of their credit cards numbers being stolen, people deep down don’t care about identity theft. I’ll never forget one post by a AppleInsider forum member who didn't want to use Apple Pay because he didn’t want to turn on passcode. What a whining idiot, I hope he doesn’t wake up one day to find out someone withdrew his entire 401k into an offshore account.

GeorgeBMac said:

Now Apple really needs to nail and grow the true strengths of this monster.

1)  As a safety device for older people.  There has never been such a product for older people -- easy to wear, waterproof (for in the very dangerous shower), heart rhythm, fall detection, easy access to help, etc...   But too, it can function for medication reminders and probably a lot more.
2)  The health promoting exercise and activity features still feel very undeveloped.   They are a good start but, they lack scope and power -- chief among them is the "health app" where exercise data goes to die lost in tiny little meaningless graphs...

You nailed it on elders. This group increases their health spending later in life, according to spending studies. Give them reasons, and they’re ready to buy the Apple Watch. Too many companies ignore the elder health market because they don’t want their brand associated with them.  Millennials especially in Silicon Valley don’t want to think about wrinkled people and it’s against their self image. So, it’s left to other companies who only want to sell to the saturated Medicare reimbursement market selling catheters, hospital socks, wheel chairs, etc.

nht said:

GeorgeBMac said:

lkrupp said:

The last thing invented in China was gunpowder. Everything since then has been copied or stolen, including Communism.

We said the same thing about Japanese radios, cars and steel -- and kept saying it till they beat us into the ground.

Of course until they hit a roadblock and fell from dominance.  Where are the Japanese now vs where we are?

The US enjoys a culture of entrepreneurial spirit and innovation that doesn’t exist in the rest of the world.  

In time we will fade as well...but not soon to the Chinese and their monoculture.

Don’t underestimate even the Japanese or China. Japanese may be behind, but with AI the future of the world economy and AI robots the future of manufacturing, guess who builds the robots? Not us, but Japan. Remember Steve Jobs/Alan Kay’s lesson about companies who write their own software should build their own hardware.

The United States is the greatest and most creative and I’m forever optimistic, but we don’t lead everwhere. Instead, we can build our own manufacturing robots and bring back manufacturing to the U.S. and hire American workers to use American robots. Unfortunately, that scenario isn’t going to happen unless there’s a change in priorities. Bringing iPhone manufacturing back to U.S. so Americans can build them in the assembly line by hand is never going to happen. Dumb! Present administration is focusing on the wrong, long-term priorities (and no, that is not an ideological statement).