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  • Apple Pay and Apple Cash experienced an outage on Friday

    chiachia
    MplsP said:
    Restaurants are the other area where having a physical card is usually necessary. More are switching to portable payment devices that take ApplePay but they're still relatively uncommon IME.
    I suspect you’re referring to restaurants in the USA; this certainly isn’t the case for restaurants and bars in the U.K. or Europe: portable terminals have been in use for well over a decade, perhaps even up to two, where they have a great business advantage of vastly improving speed and efficiency of service. 

    I’d go as far as to say that it’s a damning indictment of the US restaurant/bars and/or the financial organisations which serve them, that they have such a painfully slow rate of adoption of something which improves their business process and bottom line
    williamlondonjas99IreneWgrandact73

  • How to not get taken for $1000 by Apple Pay scammers

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    loopless said:
    I am completely shocked when I see people using their credit cards  with "tap to pay".   No biometrics. Just tap the card.

    Everywhere else in the known  universe they require a PIN.

    then sadly you don’t know or have traveled far in the known universe: there’s no PIN with tap to pay right across the U.K, as with the European Union countries I’ve travelled in too.

    The notion of entering a PIN defeats the  very aim of making Tap to Pay convenient to use, though the value of a single tap to pay transaction using a card is limited to £100,  and other countries probably have similar limits. The PIN is required only for transactions above that amount or for occasional “spot checks” by the card issuing financial institution.

    ”Tap to Pay” with Apple Pay is different as the user is verified by their device, allowing a higher value to be tapped, usually the retailer’s floor limit. 
    mike1ronn

  • Apple accessories set for rapid Lighting to USB-C shift

    chiachia
    I wonder if they'll be offering a USB-C to 3.5mm dongle for the new phones?
    https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MU7E2ZM/A/usb-c-to-35mm-headphone-jack-adapter

    It already exists, just a question of whether it'll be compatible with the new iPhones
    baconstangwatto_cobra

  • New MacBook Pro with M1 Max processor will ditch Touch Bar, adopt MagSafe

    chiachia
    Clamourers for USB-A ports on the new MacBook Pros have appeared with depressing predictability. It seems contradictory to want old tech on new products: the official USB organisation has dropped the USB-A connector from the current standard: USB 4 is achieved only via USB-C connectors.

    All this clamour for USB-A ports is ironic seeing how 20 years ago Apple introduced the iMac with just USB[-A] ports, and there was lots of whining back then as to why Apple couldn’t also add the SCSI and Serial ports of the day. 

    The USB-C connector is superior both in ease of use and the features it can offer; if Apple kept on catering to the technology luddites we’d all still be using ”laptops” the size and weight of the Macintosh Portable with ADB and SCSI ports.

    It’s difficult to believe that those incapable of adapting to a $20-50 USB-C/Bluetooth mouse, or a $20 dollar USB-C to HDMI cable/adaptor, are serious, or should be taken seriously, in their consideration of several thousand dollar MacBook Pros for professional revenue earning work.
    williamlondonDetnatortenthousandthingsuraharacommand_fwatto_cobra

  • Steve Jobs email reveals Apple was evaluating an 'iPhone nano' in 2010

    chiachia
    OutdoorAppDeveloper said:
    In 2020 Tim Cook was not evaluating a Mac Nano even though Apple had the technical ability to produce one easily. That's the difference between a CEO with vision and one with ability. Jobs imagined products that could not be produced. Cook can't imagine products which can be produced.
    All this uninformed Tim Cook bashing is getting tiresome: Tim Cook was one of Steve Jobs’s very first, if not first hires when he resumed as CEO. Jony Ive was one of the few senior people Steve Jobs retained from the previous Apple administration.

    Thus the 21st century success of Apple is as much the fruit of Tim Cook’s and Jonathan Ive’s labours as it is Steve Jobs’s.
    tommikeleroundaboutnowwatto_cobra