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Every time I see people talking about the apple card, I have a bit of a double-take. The card was free right? It's not a luxury good, right? It lives in your wa

Every time I see people talking about the apple card, I have a bit of a double-take. The card was free right? It's not a luxury good, right? It lives in your wallet 99.9% of the time, right? Also, it blows my mind that it doesn't support contactless. First American banks were behind by a decade on chip and pin, now they can't get on board with this either and it's holding back the adoption of contactless credit card POS readers in the USA which is also holding back Apple Pay. Weird choice.

MBCook 7y ago
Of course it doesn’t support contactless. Apple wants you to use Apple Pay for contactless, not the physical card. Edit: in a comment much lower down someone mentioned that the fact the card is made out of titanium may have made contactless hard/impossible. That had not occurred to me.
- beefalo 7y ago
  My chase sapphire card is metal and has contactless payment
  - MBCook 7y ago
    Well that proves it’s possible. So much for that theory.
  - SheinhardtWigCo 7y ago
    It’s a metal core sandwiched with layers of plastic on the front and back. Mine is starting to peel.
- amaccuish 7y ago
  From a marketing perspective though I think it'd be more effective if you encouraged your users to get out their "unique" card for contactless payments. No one really looks at the iPhone screen as the payment goes through so you lose the opportunity to show the card off.
astura 7y ago
They even aren't particularly prestige with their acceptance criteria - https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-card-goldman-sachs-subprime-credit-scores-report-2019-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-card-goldman-sachs-sub...