A metal credit card is a status symbol, for people who can't afford an actual status symbol like a Coutts card. Complaining about it's lack of practicality is l

A metal credit card is a status symbol, for people who can't afford an actual status symbol like a Coutts card. Complaining about it's lack of practicality is like complaining that your Ferrari doesn't handle well in your local multi-story car park. Of course it doesn't, because you've bought the Ferrari to drive through town and have people stare. The function is the form. Let's lay aside the physical design, the Apple card has inferior benefits to most comparable cards and the notification features that Apple seems to think it's pioneering have been available from plenty of other banks for years. I already have my cards in my Apple wallet, I already have an App that tells me exactly what I've spent and when, I even have an App that aggregates all my spending and tells me my budget. As for privacy, it's still a Goldman Sachs mastercard, your spending history is going straight through them and pretending that your spending is private is simply a lie. In fact it's pretty astonishing that Apple is using the Facebook lie of "We don't sell your data" - no you don't sell our data, you sell access to the profiles you create about our habits. Anyway, this turned into a bit of a rant, but seriously, status symbols don't compete on practicality, they compete on status.