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Amazon Discontinuing One Palm?

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It was found that hardly 2 percent of the people who shop use One Palm. Not worth maintaining and upgrading technologies that are not actively being used.

Interesting. Thats shockingly low for how long Palm has been out. I wonder what happened? I understand that palm reading is spooky (i saw a lot of paranoid articles when Palm launched and at least one of my friends mistook the tech for being a chip reader and told me that i had gotten the mark of the beast), but convenience is king, and the marketing seemed perfect. Even in tech-forward silicon valley, i cant remembe…

I love(d) it and used it every time I'd go to WF, but TBF I heard about it by "accident" (some small ad somewhere, or maybe it was in the Amazon app?) ... I got the impression Amazon just didn't want to push it much.

Re: Amazon Discontinuing One Palm?

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Aw ... it was really nice at Whole Paycheck, I'm going to miss it. Any guesses as to why? Unlike Google Maps Timeline data being subpoenaed, I can't see what LE could use with this (since they have other ways to determine you were at a store), so that can't(?) be the reason why. Oh wait- was this available in the EU?

It wasn't available in EU. A startup out of Revolut - Five.id - is doing palm payments in London though.
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