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Using my phone to pay is pretty low friction. There's literal friction to pulling anything out, but the phone comes out much more easily than the financial xeno
by neocritter 3y ago
Using my phone to pay is pretty low friction. There's literal friction to pulling anything out, but the phone comes out much more easily than the financial xenomorph of pulling my wallet out, then pulling a card out of the wallet. Then I have to stab the chip end in a reader since I have yet to find one that supports tap to pay.
- beretguy 3y agoAs somebody who has a broken wrist right now: yes, it’s A LOT easier and frictionless to use phone than having to pull out/put back in a card.
- singleshot_ 3y agoI dropped my phone a couple inches into a rug and now it’s covered in tiny glass shards so I’d have to disagree. Hope your wrist heals up soon.
- beretguy 3y agoThen don’t drop your phones
- singleshot_ 3y agoI changed my mind about your wrist.
- LtWorf 3y agoKeep the card in the pocket directly.
- nickthegreek 3y agoIt’s even easier to tap my smart watch! I love it and I feel more secure than getting my card out.
- chrisdhal 3y ago> I have yet to find one that supports tap to pay Interesting. I haven't seen one in years that doesn't support it in the US. Most of the time even when I hand my card to a cashier because the terminal is by them, they tend to tap it. I was at a Walgreens once where they had it disabled and the cashier sighed and said the manager disabled it because tap incurred a slightly higher processing fee than inserting the card. This was a couple of years ago and not sure if it's true, but that's what the cashier said the manager said.