jbdragon

I'm still surprised it's gone this far. Why hasn't it all be wiped under the rug already. Samesung and the Government are one and the same for the most part. Who did this person really piss off?

thedba said:

eightzero said:

macxpress said:

Oh but remember, ApplePay is a failure! Nobody uses this....

People don't realize nothing like this just takes off. When you do a major change like this it takes quite a while to get everyone on board (Retailers, Banks, and Customers). It doesn't matter who is CEO of Apple or who is running it. This is a huge undertaking for everyone involved. This will succeed in time...patience people! Patience!

Yes, but I sure wish there was a way for AAPL to incentivize the retailers into accepting ApplePay. Week after week I go to my grocery store (where I spend more dollars and have more transactions than anywhere else):
 
"You take ApplePay yet?"
 "<shrug> don't know."
 "Can you tell your boss a customer would like it?"
 "<shrug> <rolls eyes> would you like help out sir?<deeps sigh, looks at line forming>" 

If you ask the clerk about Apple Pay, he/she may not know. Do they have contactless payments (aka tap and Pay)? If yes, then by definition Apple Pay works. Ever since Canadian banks got on board, most of my day to day shopping is now done through Apple Pay. I would say the ratio is now between 60-65%, all through Apple Pay.

I went to Togo's and I guess they had a New terminal and I saw the NFC symbol on screen so I asked if they took Apple Pay, the person there said she didn't think so, but I tried it with my Apple Watch and it went though. Then the other person there said something about it supposedly was suppose to be Disabled. They wanted me to sign the receipt like normal, but on it is said No Signature Required. Which they though was strange, and I ended up signing it anyway down below. I'm using it at more and more places, but around half of the places don't say anything about supporting Apple Pay. I just see the NFC symbol and so I give it a try and sometimes it works and other times it doesn't. I try to use it as much as I can. I've had fraud issues in the past, in fact 3 years in a row a few years back. None since using Apple Pay for whatever that's worth. So I use Apple Pay as much as I can in stores and PayPal online as Apple Pay is hardly anywhere online. Anything so I don't have to give out my credit card number. That's last resort.

chadbag said:

sog35 said:

BULLSHIT

They changed the battery and it still blew up.

Did you read the article?  The problem lying with the battery does not mean that a specific battery brand was at fault.   If there was not enough space for the battery to expand, two similarly specced batteries from two manufacturers could both behave the same way.  

Samesung is blaming the battery. Yet the problem was the SAME for the battery from 2 different company's. The fact is there was not enough space for the battery they put into the phone, which if rumors are true, they ended up installing a larger battery then originally designed. These battery's do expand, especially as they get older. This is not a battery issue. Nothing was wrong with the battery's. It was their stupidity. Either they were dumb in not allowing enough space for the battery to expand over time, or they installed a larger batter because it fit, but didn't expand where it was going into the phone and so had no room to expand. In either case, it wasn't really a battery issue. it was a phone design issue. The recalled happen because they knew over time as those phones got older and older, more and more phones would be blowing up as the battery's aged and expanded. At the very least the phone would pop open. At worse as the battery plates get compressed, the phone blows up. Who knows how huge of a problem it could have been after a year?