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California school students are getting 1 million iPads for back-to-school
^This. We don't support our users personal devices or networks. To do so would be a nightmare. The number of our staff asking us to support them and the variety of setups in a staff of 200 is absolutely astounding.mike1 said:Likely similar thoughts to using a company-issued device. They probably feel they can better manage the software, upgrades and lock it down from unauthorized uses. This way, the IT departments only have to worry about one type of device to support. Imagine the myriad of laptops, desktops, tablets, phones etc. that would exist among families in even a single school district. Then add multiple Operating systems at various levels of updates. It would be a nightmare.
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Apple Pay gains 30 more US banks amid wait for more retail chains
It is stupidity on their part. It is rather simple to turn it on provided you have a modern payment terminal. What surprises me most are grocery stores that accept WIC but not chip cards. Any merchant with a Verifone MX915/925 (the most common payment terminal in use) can accept both chip and NFC payments. To not do so is lazy. I do retail technology for a small chain of bookstores and it was rather easy to enable.rob53 said:
It's actually merchant support. I was at Costco this morning asking about the conversion from Amex to Citibank and asked about ApplePay and chipped cards. Costco takes neither, which surprised about not using chipped cards. Of course I wasn't talking to anyone who really knows anything other than discussing the credit card conversion but she said she didn't want to use SamsungPay on her Galaxy. I tried explaining the benefits of either one and she quickly shut down, she wasn't ready to even try and understand something other than swiping a card. Expand this to the other millions of people who are technically challenged (like politicians, police, and judges) and you see the situation Apple is in. It's relatively easy for Apple to get banks to get on board because the backend part of ApplePay is straightforward. It's the merchant end that's causing issues, mainly because merchants rarely want to spend any money on IT and once something is working, they don't want to pay to change it. I've given up worrying about Home Depot ever turning NFC back on and am simply happy when I find a store that's tech savvy enough (I hate this term) to know how to turn it on and what it means to their customers.ValueAnalyst said:It baffles me that Apple is focused on adding more banks when CLEARLY the roadblock in front of Apple Pay is lack of vendor support. When can I leave my cards home?
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What Smart Connector charging could mean for the 'iPhone 7' and beyond
Umm, the new Apple Pay/Chip reader sold by Square uses Bluetooth... Also, the most popular enterprise card readers use the Lightning port or Bluetooth. Moving to Bluetooth is not a major issue...pchesels said:what the new audio port through the lightning connector means is more royalties for Apple since the current audio jack is used by square trade and other credit card swipers for free without having to pay apple.
