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How to clean your Apple Card
- pensatoio 7y agoReally nothing surprising here. I think this is more about being able to point a finger and say, “we told you how to take care of it,” when people inevitably ruin the thing.
- stunt 7y agoI don’t remember ever cleaning my credit cards!
- schede 7y agoExactly, just report it as lost and get a new one!
- eyeareque 7y agoNo leather wallets, how did they not test this? You’d think their coating process would protect against this.
- mlyle 7y agoLots of leather wallets will discolor basically anything. I get little streaks on all my cards. It probably can get scrubbed off my "platinum" cards somehow but sure doesn't come off with casual cleaning.
- Alupis 7y agoWell, making the darn thing white certainly doesn't help! Clearly they didn't learn much from all those black scuffed dirty white MacBook charging cables... > If your titanium Apple Card comes into contact with hard surfaces or materials, it's possible that the coating can be damaged. This seems all but a guarantee! This thing will be handled by dirty hands, slid in and out of machines, put into those folder things at restaurants (I've spilled salsa and other things on those more than once), and more. I have a few metal cards... They're all dark colors, and I've never once had to think about how to keep them clean looking.
- _nhynes 7y agoAll the more reason to use the cardless apple pay then, eh? Hmm..
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoIf a card made of an unusual material is enough to garner adoption, consider me impressed and maybe not of the highest of business acumen skills.
- d--b 7y agoIt’s fetish-oriented design.
- mintone 7y agoIt has been a huge part of the sell here for Monzo [0] with a bright coral coloured card and Revolut [1] with black, pink and metal cards. It works! [0] https://monzo.com/fullmonzo/ https://monzo.com/fullmonzo/ [1] https://www.revolut.com/introducing-revolut-metal https://www.revolut.com/introducing-revolut-metal Edited to link to revolut metal including apple style video of production, featuring Jony Ive sound-a-like
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoFlashy cars and houses in nice neighborhoods make for nice status symbols. Who sees your credit card, beyond you and your server, cashier, etc?
- katbyte 7y agoI don’t agree with it but people you go out with diner and pay for? There are plenty of times people see my card outside the server/cashier.
- stunt 7y agoBut who cares what type of card do you have? Or why do you care what server/cashier thinks about your status? If you happen to have a real premium card, then probably people around you already know your status. They don't need to look at your credit card.
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- schede 7y agoPeople are worried about the wrong thing, IMO there are a lot other more important things that we should be worrying about instead.
- groovypuppy 7y agoDon’t get me wrong, I love Apple. This is a company that popularized GUIs, gave us hyperCard, gave us the iPod and the iPhone and now it’s selling us a credit card? Really? Am I missing something? This is innovation and I’m just too old and nostalgic recognizing it as such? Help an old geezer out here.
- devoply 7y agoHow to make more money by capitalizing off your brand 101.
- godzillabrennus 7y agoThey innovated away usable keyboards and futuristic magnetic charging cables from their laptops.
- dangxiaopin 7y agoThe trick with shorting is timing. Sometimes financial indicators continue growing for 2-3 years after the company peaks. Apple cider vinegar anymore perhaps decay but it's unclear where the markets would price this in.
- teekert 7y agoI don't really know what the Apple card features but I recently switched to a mobile first, new, "fintech" bank (bunq) and it is a breath of fresh air. The stale personal financial sector is very ripe for some disruption imho.
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoIt's the literal financialization of a technology company. But, to be more specific: Apple was the company to make such a move. Apple is a brand people identify with. Even if adoption is tepid, imagine how well a "Microsoft Card" would do.
- azinman2 7y agoThe integration with the wallet app is really nice, and it makes Apple Pay cheaper... which makes me want to use it more. I also appreciate the privacy stance.
- albertshin 7y agoIt will be absolutely hilarious (yet somewhat plausible) when people start making cases / skins for these cards.
- garretraziel 7y ago"Cases" for credit cards are pretty common here in Europe (something like this: https://www.kartyvbezpeci.cz/174-thickbox_default/pouzdro-na-kreditni-karty-modre-kb-117.jpg https://www.kartyvbezpeci.cz/174-thickbox_default/pouzdro-na...)
- mahgnous 7y agoIs this a joke?
- millstone 7y agoI think there should have been no physical Apple Card. The design is very Apple, and surely looks and feels great. But it risks upstaging the big idea of payment flow modernization. To stretch a bit: the iMac asserted that you don't need all those ports, and the Apple Card should assert you don't need that piece of plastic - or laser-etched titanium - in your wallet.
- stunt 7y ago> I think there should have been no physical Apple Card Physical card is their best ads billboard. Perhaps they will remove it after a few years when they have enough market share.
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoPeople adopt this primarily because the card is titanium. It's a status symbol. Remove the card and you kill adoption. Paying with NFC will never seem as sexy as a paying with titanium. It's somewhat orthogonal to Apple's long-term goal of getting everyone to pay with Apple: in entrenches the coolness of physical payment methods over contactless.
- jgrantme 7y agoI think the physical card is (in part) an attempt to stimulate digital usage (especially in North America where adoption of Apple Pay is pretty low compared to other places like Europe). Give people something they're familiar with (a physical card), reward them with cashback (which they will likely use digitally), and eventually wean them off the physical card completely.
- sidr 7y agoI'm surprised to hear that Apple Pay has higher adoption in Europe, given that the iPhone has lower penetration there.
- cianmm 7y agoiPhone adaption might be lower, but contactless adaption is through the roof. I can’t remember the last shop I was at which didn’t accept contactless. Even vendors at farmers markets accept contactless these days. So since most banks support Apple Pay (and Google Pay), pretty much everybody who is comfortable with technology uses it.
- justanothersys 7y agoMaybe it’s their way of celebrating 100 years of the Bauhaus? To me, the weirdest thing is seeing a customer service webpage for a credit card in the design language and rhetoric of computer hardware support. It somehow feels similar to the recently discussed WeWork criticism of them not actually being a tech company, yet masquerading as one through design.
- electic 7y agoI have been using Apple Card now for about two weeks and I have to say the physical card is nothing short of marketing genius by Apple. The 2% unlimited cash back now has me using Apple Pay everywhere. At places that don't have it, I have to pull out the titanium card. Almost every place I go to people ask what is this card? Am I an Apple employee? Keep in mind, most places have never seen a titanium card before because they are typically given to extremely high net work individuals by AMEX and Visa. After explaining what the card is. They invariably ask what is the benefit of the card. Being a nice guy, I explain them the benefits of the card. The card is a conversation starter. It serves as an advertisement for people to sign up and it also serves as a way to get the establishment that you used the card to start accepting NFC payments. None of this would be possible if the card was a crappy plastic material.
- sytelus 7y agoJust curious, why did you got this card? There are tons of Chase and other cards with much better cashback and terms. Just wondering what advantage did you saw in this card.
- electic 7y agoI have looked at many cards. But most of them have annual fees, have categories that don't give the same percentage cash back on certain purchases, or they have limits. For example, most cards have a 2% cash back limit up to $6,000 dollars. There is the Citi Double cash card that does have unlimited but really it is 1.98 percent because you get 1% on every dollar spent and 1% on every dollar paid. However, if you apply it to your statement you have not paid the balance so it really is a bit lower than 2%. Not to mention, you need at least 25 dollars in cash back before you can use it and it expires. Apple gives the cash back the next day. Which is insane. While Citi takes 1.5 months to give it to you. It is easy to forget about it and one of the reasons why so many people forget and it expires out. The only exception is travel cards. If you travel a lot it might make sense to get one of those cards for the perks because your usage will offset the annual fee. In that department, Apple does provide no foreign transactions fees and I think that is good enough for me.
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- lubujackson 7y agoDo not taunt Happy Fun Ball. https://snltranscripts.jt.org/90/90mhappyfunball.phtml https://snltranscripts.jt.org/90/90mhappyfunball.phtml
- TruffleLabs 7y agoThere is irony Apple has a physical card used as a token to transfer financial and transaction information. Then again... Wallet needs an iPhone to work ;)