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> there is a lot to learn from china, we already copying them with contactless payments, even though our "market" doesn't want it because they want to make sure
by Mindwipe 5y ago
> there is a lot to learn from china, we already copying them with contactless payments, even though our "market" doesn't want it because they want to make sure business are subscribing to service with insane fees first
Contactless payments are already widespread in every Western nation that isn't the US.
- Shadonototra 5y agoIt's very recent, wich is the point of my post, we lost so much time with meaningless things
- ckcheng 5y agoContactless payments was already adopted in Canada for several years by 2010 [1]. It’s not recent. Not sure why US is slow in this adoption though [1] See first two sentences here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/new-credit-cards-pose-security-problem-1.904220 https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/new-credit-cards-pose-securi...
- Shadonototra 5y agoCome on, it was just for a very small minority, and you couldn't do it for every payments, most businesses refused for small payments because of the fees, "CC only after X dollar" kind of rules And you still can't use your phone, a joke this system is
- Mindwipe 5y ago> It's very recent, wich is the point of my post, we lost so much time with meaningless things But again, outside of the US it isn't. Contactless payments have been common in Europe and had widespread usage for a decade. Chinese and European adoption was pretty similar.
- School-Cotton 5y agoThey are widespread in the US too. Yes, we were slower to adopt them than others, but for the last few years we have had them.
- irrational 5y agoContactless payments are becoming more widespread in the US. At this point, the only store that I frequent that doesn’t accept contactless payment is Home Depot. I recently went on a week long road trip and 90+% of my transactions were contactless.