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Sorry, every complaint about apple pay is someone not using a watch on a card they use for most things. I lived in Europe the last three years up until moving
by bbarn 3y ago
Sorry, every complaint about apple pay is someone not using a watch on a card they use for most things. I lived in Europe the last three years up until moving back to the US recently, and in Europe, there was simply nothing easier than double clicking the watch button, and hovering over the NFC payment device. Even since moving back, I find it almost a rarity a place doesn't accept that and all it took was changing the primary card back to a US one.
If you're on Apple's ecosystem, and not using the watch, you're missing out. All of the criticism of walled gardens are certainly relevant, but even with the iPhone only (or, hey, when I forget to charge the watch for two days) I can do the same thing with the same double click and the extra step of FaceId-ing the phone.
Meanwhile card skimmers are no longer a fear, I don't have to put a zip code in to get gas in my car, and as a side benefit, most UI's on payment devices haven't figured out how to beg for tips with apple pay yet (yet). As I understand it the android experience is almost identical. I now only carry a single card, my debit card, which is a back up in case I really need cash for something and an ATM is my only option. I don't see anything inconvenient about that.
- vxNsr 3y agoI just don’t want to have another thing to charge every day or two. Until Apple makes an eink watch or can somehow stretch the battery life to a week without compromising features I’m not interested. I have an amazfit bip with an e-ink screen that I last charged 27 days ago, still have 16% battery life, and it serves its main purpose of showing me notifications for my apps (mind you not all of them) and tracking my sleep and steps.