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> 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 a
by 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 agoThey 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 agoIt's not exactly a missing feature; I have a bunch of (mostly high-end) credit cards and none of them support contactless.