People 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 a

People 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.