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One thing I haven't seen discussed much is the change from the original marketing materials which described the user's name as being engraved on the card, rathe

One thing I haven't seen discussed much is the change from the original marketing materials which described the user's name as being engraved on the card, rather than printed. Ultimately I think complaints about the physical card are sort of silly. To be honest, I'm a little surprised Apple included one at all, since the point is to drive businesses in the US to supporting contact-less payments. Of course once they decided to include a physical card, it wasn't going to be a basic plastic card.

iguy 7y ago
> point is to drive businesses in the US to supporting contact-less payments. So the card does not support contactless payment by itself? Only magnetic strip and chip? I hadn't realised this, but I guess might be difficult to do in metal. Is it too much to wonder whether making it out of metal is to distract from this missing feature, because they'd prefer you to pay with the phone?
- dwaite 7y ago
  They probably wanted to remove every single thing from the card that was superfluous - leaving the name, chip, magstripe, Apple's logo along with the bank and network logo (GS and MC). Particularly, no numbers, signature, bank contact info, or NFC. And yes, they get away with this by pushing wireless payment, number/CVV, and contact onto the phone.
- wmf 7y ago
  It's not exactly a missing feature; I have a bunch of (mostly high-end) credit cards and none of them support contactless.
threeseed 7y ago
Even in Australia where contactless is ubiquitous I still need to use my card in about 5% of transactions. Often it's the design of the machine that makes it hard to complete with your phone. And then if you keep failing to complete it will ask you to insert/swipe a physical card.
dpkonofa 7y ago
Are you sure it's printed? It looks laser engraved in the same way that custom iPod messages are. Doesn't look like it can rub off to me.
- phinnaeus 7y ago
  Not positive, but it definitely looks different from the marketing materials (even those still being used).

iguy 7y ago

> point is to drive businesses in the US to supporting contact-less payments. So the card does not support contactless payment by itself? Only magnetic strip and chip? I hadn't realised this, but I guess might be difficult to do in metal. Is it too much to wonder whether making it out of metal is to distract from this missing feature, because they'd prefer you to pay with the phone?

dwaite 7y ago
They probably wanted to remove every single thing from the card that was superfluous - leaving the name, chip, magstripe, Apple's logo along with the bank and network logo (GS and MC). Particularly, no numbers, signature, bank contact info, or NFC. And yes, they get away with this by pushing wireless payment, number/CVV, and contact onto the phone.
wmf 7y ago
It's not exactly a missing feature; I have a bunch of (mostly high-end) credit cards and none of them support contactless.

threeseed 7y ago

Even in Australia where contactless is ubiquitous I still need to use my card in about 5% of transactions. Often it's the design of the machine that makes it hard to complete with your phone. And then if you keep failing to complete it will ask you to insert/swipe a physical card.

dpkonofa 7y ago

Are you sure it's printed? It looks laser engraved in the same way that custom iPod messages are. Doesn't look like it can rub off to me.

phinnaeus 7y ago
Not positive, but it definitely looks different from the marketing materials (even those still being used).