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Apple Card launches today for all US customers

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Re: Apple Card launches today for all US customers

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Post by lawrenceyan »

brohoolio wrote: post #2

Pretty slick application process. Very quick approval. I’m digging the privacy. But it didn’t work when I tried to buy lunch. I’ll try again tomorrow.

That seems like a pretty big error... With a launch is pivotal as this, you would think they would do more testing to ensure you’d at least be able to make purchases at launch.

Re: Apple Card launches today for all US customers

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Post by shurcooL »

lawrenceyan wrote: post #3
brohoolio wrote: post #2

Pretty slick application process. Very quick approval. I’m digging the privacy. But it didn’t work when I tried to buy lunch. I’ll try again tomorrow.

That seems like a pretty big error... With a launch is pivotal as this, you would think they would do more testing to ensure you’d at least be able to make purchases at launch.

To add another data point, I had no problems making the first purchase with it (or any purchases since).

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Post by breck »

shurcooL wrote: post #5
lawrenceyan wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That seems like a pretty big error... With a launch is pivotal as this, you would think they would do more testing to ensure you’d at least be able to make purchases at launch.

To add another data point, I had no problems making the first purchase with it (or any purchases since).

Worked for me great. The visualization of category purchases is simple and brilliant.

Re: Apple Card launches today for all US customers

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Post by 4ntonius8lock »

1% back using the card?

I make few purchases with less than 3%.

In terms of security, I've had my card cloned. Within minutes the bank locked the account and had a new card shipped. Hardly a big pain point they are solving. And most of us have more than one, so if any of our cards are down, we have others. It's merchants that currently carry the cost of low quality financial instrument standards we have.

For privacy, if I valued it over the $x,xxx I get back every year in the form of cash back, free insurance on rentals, etc, I'd use the most private of all instruments.... Cash.

Pretty mediocre card if you ask me. Of course, the cool factor will make this a success. They only need the right % of the cool crowd to move in on it, and the rest will follow the virality. Oh us humans.

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