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In many places in USA, chip cards take significantly longer than swiping - like 10-30 seconds.
by ctdonath 11y ago
In many places in USA, chip cards take significantly longer than swiping - like 10-30 seconds.
- jonknee 11y agoIt's really astonishing that the credit card companies thought that mandating a much slower process was going to work. Should be a huge boon for Apple/Android Pay though.
- serge2k 11y agoWhat's astonishing is how far behind the rest of the world the US is in adopting the technology.
- ctdonath 11y agoThat's a problem with being first adopter: the considerable investment in early infrastructure leaves you with early infrastructure which is hard & expensive to replace, contrasted with later adopters who take advantage of scale, lessons, and bypassing incremental steps.