Am I the only one who thinks their use of the e-ink display is super friggin' cool? I'm personally not aware of may other use cases beyond e-readers.
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me, the remote-wipe ability is a killer app. Currently, when I lose a physical card, I have to go through a painful get-a-new-card procedure that involves going to my major websites and giving them my new card #. With remote wipe, when I lose my card I just remote-wipe it and order a new one. Also, this card will warn me when I'm too far from it so I won't be as likely to leave it behind.
This can be avoided today by using one card for subscriptions and other recurring payments, and another card for physical purchases. I do something similar already, where I never carry around the debit card associated with my primary checking account.
I should never use a debit card for anything anyway.
You have awful fraud protection and zero to near-zero rewards.
Banks will give you net-30 terms for no cost, reward you with many benefits, and give you fantastic protection from thieves AND retailers.
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#153Wow I can't wait for the "scroll to make the picture change" form of user interaction to go away.
1000000% agree, I don't know why that's the "in thing" at the moment
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#154I hate to be so cynical, but product names nowadays are bordering on parody. And what's with the poor special effects in the background video? The e-ink display doesn't even line up with the card when it moves! You'd think they'd put just a little more work into that, since it's the first thing people see.
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#155Am I the only one who thinks their use of the e-ink display is super friggin' cool? I'm personally not aware of may other use cases beyond e-readers.
Google "smartphone e-ink case", there seem to be a few of these. Very cool.
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#156The websites for both Plastc Card and Coin do the "animate images and diagrams as users scroll" pattern. I want to punch the designer in the face who ever thought this was a good idea.
What you don't like about that, would a video have been better?
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#157They say this supports chip-and-PIN, but I don't believe them until they explain how. If I have a chip-and-PIN card from my bank, the chip has an unreadable secret used to generate one-time cryptograms to verify the authenticity of the card. There's no way to get that secret onto my Plastc card. You'd need partnerships with banks to get a new secret the way Apple Pay does. Without those, this sounds like it'll be use…
On the bottom of their wallet tab [1], they list several participating banks, so it sounds like they might have those partnerships you mention. [1] https://www.plastc.com/wallet
From their website:
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#158The ridiculous number of features on this card makes it really hard to believe that an unknown startup has the resources to pull it off in the form factor as thin as a credit card. Coin still hasn't gotten there yet (they claim it works at 85% of the locations they visited). Adding more features including wireless charging coils and unknown method for duplicating chip and pin makes me really skeptical that this will…
Also, the fact that their home page video features some poorly motion-tracked simulated display. That alone instills some fear in me that this is just complete vaporware.
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#159What need does this address? Are cards taking up too much room in people's lives? This solution doesn't reduce the height or width of the encumbrance at all, and reduces the depth only by n*.76mm, where n is the number of cards that will be replaced. I don't get it. Also, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheZenOfProgramming
It serves the company's need to insert itself into the financial data stream. You know the story: "It's a $2 trillion industry - imagine if we just captured a fraction of that! Step 3: profit." For users, this must be some retro fad jumping the gun. Given the value of the transaction data going through this thing, it should be free at worst.
Yeah, there's potential to use a device like this to build a service like Simple or Moven but without the need to force users to open a new account with you just to get the necessary data. They even showed the instant feedback alerts in the demo video.
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#160Am I do only one having a huge (yet still growing) list of preordered and backed projects and waiting for their delivery? If I sum up the pending ones up, it's thousands of dollars. If I put all that money in the stock market and buy the products after they are on the market, and read the reviews, I'm sure I'll be saving money and not be worried that I'm getting schemed all the time.
I'd supplant savings account with stock market. The stock market is a little frothy as of late and a pull-back has been in the works for a while.