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You should see my debit card. After like maybe 6 months of just carrying it in my pocket everywhere, the layers start to delaminate and it becomes frilley arou
by aetherspawn 7y ago
You should see my debit card.
After like maybe 6 months of just carrying it in my pocket everywhere, the layers start to delaminate and it becomes frilley around the edges which then gets dirty and looks gross.
Anything that isn’t plastic and laminated would be a plus. Can’t imagine the Apple Card could look worse.
- altcognito 7y agoYeah this entire story strikes me as viral marketing so people carrying the card have a story and they can put their card in a “special” spot.
- ryanmercer 7y agoI saw scratched ones in /r/applecard days ago already. Titanium isn't some wundermetal Here's a recent one from 8 hours ago, scratched https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleCard/comments/cu88gh/sctaches_at_a_level_5_deeper_grooves_at_a_level_6/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleCard/comments/cu88gh/sctaches_... They're basically saying don't use leather because the dyes can bleed onto the metal and to avoid stuff like denim (which is generally rather abrasive and can pick up and hold random debris which can further scratch). People are acting like it's some conspiracy or that they need to buy some otter box style case Apple is just saying "stop doing this and this or you're going to call us freaking out wanting a new card" (people are already requesting new cards because theirs is scratched...).
- jerf 7y agoUnfortunately, the real-world environment is naturally endowed with some grit that clocks in pretty high on the Mohs' scale. Just bog-standard "sand" can get up to 7 and it's not hard to find little bits of grit that go even higher, made either of pulverized naturally-hard materials or industrial stuff. A quick Google suggests titanium is a 6, which in addition to being scratchable by pretty much all the grit, makes it significant lower than most cell phone screens now. It's going to be hard to keep the sheen on those for any length of time.
- xondono 7y agoIt’s part of the “find a defect in an apple product” market. It’s a very profitable industry
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- trevyn 7y agoThe metal AmEx Platinum actually rusted.
- orev 7y agoWallets specifically exist to solve this problem, and if you’re not using one then you will see those obvious effects. The issue here is that Apple is telling you not to use the things that are specifically designed to protect cards and such from these kinds of problems.
- aetherspawn 7y agoI’d argue Apple Pay and loyalty card scanning basically deprecated a wallet. I use my banks app for loyalty card scanning because it doesn’t work properly in Apple Wallet yet.
- orev 7y agoI agree that paying by phone is convenient and pretty cool, but you really need to be in a special kind of first world bubble to think it’s a valid and future proof complete replacement for a wallet. There are just so many failure scenarios that are so easy to imagine it’s hardly even worth talking about.