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© Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Will Apple's digital wallet kill the card swipe?
By MAE ANDERSON NEW YORK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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JeffLee
What happens when your battery runs dry? My friend's iphone's battery dies every day.
Probie
No.
Tokiyo
JeffLee: You charge it, like a normal person would?
ipone
Mobile payments are certainly very useful and speedy, so in the global society, this kind of payments will be needed.
A lot of sightseers are trouble in foreign money exchange.
New phone service help the sightseers have a comfortable time during their trip.
JeffLee
In a department store or at a train station, etc? My friends and colleagues iphone batteries often die within the day if they've been using their phone, say, in the morning.
Installing power cables at all the POS locations would be just another hassle.
Or.....you could simply use your cheap, simple and dependable Visa card.
Tokiyo
Come on, really? there are portable battery packs, disposable chargers, charging stations - they don't take up more space than a card holder...
gogogo
No, run out of battery then you run out of money.
Amidalism
Seeing as how so many stores here still don't even accept credit cards I don't think it is a matter of killing credit cards as cash still rules here. I don't see it taking over overseas either. I mean is it so hard to swipe a credit card and sign your name? Are people really going to go out without their wallets? What about their driver's license/ID/other cards? If you still need a wallet to carry those around, is it that hard to keep your credit card with them? Pulling your wallet out, having your card swiped and signing the bill shouldn't take more than a minute. Are people really that rushed for time?
nath
Maybe four or five iphones ago. The iphone 5 has a nice long battery life. I assume the 6 will have a longer one.
therougou
Those of us without iphones have been using our phones to pay easily here in Japan. of course there are a lot of places here that don't accept card to begin with. And what I don't get is you can have two branches of the same store in close proximity and one accepts mobile payment while one doesn't? Like McDonalds and Seijo Ishii accept ID payment everywhere I've been but in a certain area near JR Osaka Station they don't accept it.
Anyway, when given the choice of card or phone, I usually go for the phone since its easiest to get out of my pocket.
gogogo
Strangerland: 2 hours longer according to apple, whatever that means, 2 hours when you're not using it? Get an S5, 10 days battery life in ultra battery saving mode.
sighclops
Well it's definitely a wakeup call for the Japanese NFC vendors. Will be interesting to see how long they choose to ignore the burgeoning threat from Apple. Ultimately thhe market will decide!
roughneck
No, cause not all will use Apple toys.
turbotsat
Charge it EVERY DAY?
Tokiyo
turbostat: yes, is it really such a hard concept to grasp?
turbotsat
Tokiyo:
I thought it was supposed to be the easiest device to use, ever. How does that square with "charge every day"?
Suppose you forget a day?
Tokiyo
turbostat:
How difficult is it to plug in before bedtime? If you forget use a back up charger, can't blame technology for someone being forgetful now can we?
turbotsat
Plug in 365+ times a year as opposed to 52 times a year? Which one is easier?
Tokiyo
routine is not hard to master.
nath
I've had to charge pretty much every phone I've ever owned every day. Right since back in the '90s when I had one of those Motorola flip phones, through the 2000s when I was using the Japanese flip phones, and on to the 2010s, when I was using iphones.
therougou
365 times a year would be easier for me - I wouldn't remember to do it exactly once a week.
turbotsat
Maybe you talk a lot on the phone? Or in low coverage area so phone wastes energy on beacon, trying to get to cell tower?
I've got 2010 samsung phone, no web usage, don't talk much, get a week or more on a charge. Don't know exactly because I just wait for the phone to start beeping at me before I charge it.
davestrousers
No, Bitcoin will win. This may be useful in getting people used to the idea of NFC payments using their phones. Then there will be more competition and people will want alternatives to Apple Pay so they don't have to Pay Apple.
WilliB
I don´t know the details of the system, but if it means putting my financial data in the Apple cloud, then no way. Count me out.
turbotsat
Nevada's a desert but the stars can drive or fly up quick and can irrigate.
Cannot blame them, I don't like California income tax, either.
Magnet
"Will Apple's digital wallet kill the card swipe?" - No, not alone anyway, since it's basically just Apple's rebrand of NFC technology. But the NFC technology it is based on might.
John Galt
I personally don't use NFC, though it's been available on my phones for several years. I also very sparingly use any card payments unless absolutely necessary. Yes, I prefer the privacy of cash payments and shun pointcards. I simply prefer not to add my data to the massive data collection. I also recall that on 3/11 when everything electronic was off-line that having sufficient cash on hand proved to be a wise choice. Relying on electronic systems has its own many risks. Cash is king