felix01

ITGUYINSD said:

I've got lots of credit cards that have apps on my iPhone, that I can lock, that I can make payments on my phone, see transactions,etc.

I'm just not clear what is so special (except for a metal card) about this card?  In a nutshell, why would I want this card when I already have half a dozen other cards?

Same question I have. I already have cards (in my Apple Wallet) which exceed the benefits of an Apple Card (except for the no visible number aspect) in every category I’ve seen publicly addressed thus far. So what’s the Apple Card draw?

Getting another credit card will knock down my FICO score a few points for three months or so. 

And how about when I have to generate a number for someone like Amazon which doesn’t accept ApplePay? Am I correct in assuming that number is only good for a single use? If so, that means I can’t use the card for a recurring bill without generating a new number for each use or for a monthly pay-off. For example, I can’t imagine generating a new number each month to pay for the newspaper. Now if that generated number is not for single use, these objections go away but then we are back to comparing the Apple Card to cards I already have which have better benefits.

I don’t need an Apple Card just to be able to say I have one. So am I missing something here? That purchase tracking is kind of neat but frankly I’d rather have the better benefits offered by cards I already have.

@"automatically and secretly copy all messages from every user to law enforcement"

My bolding.

I trust they've got some serious data storage capability!

bulk001 said:

Let me fix that first sentence for you ...

I didn't have any trouble understanding what AppleInsider meant. 

Then again, the AppleInsider story was edited at 6:23 am and again at 7:27 am with no end-of-story mention of what was changed. I guess nobody at AI has ever heard of The Associated Press Stylebook which covers, among many other things, ethical journalistic practices.  

I'm thinking it's not so much that they couldn't solve the engineering required to mass produce the device; rather, they couldn't produce it at price point that anyone but the Apple Fanboys would buy it. 

Once the marketing folks decided they couldn't even make enough profit to offset the already substantial sunk costs, let alone the manufacturing start-up costs, it was adiós AirPower. Besides, "AirPower" has been a US Air Force term since 1947. Obviously, Apple's use of the word would 'confuse' the nation's airmen and we couldn't have that.  😜

As others have already posted, William, "good article." You covered all bases, no serious "How do you ..." questions in the comment thread which you haven't already addressed.