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This is a faster horse, not an automobile.
Automobiles don't get invented every day, or indeed every year. In a world where the horse is king, a faster horse is a good thing.
Lot of comments here is how Apple pay will rule. But not everybody can or want to buy iPhone. Or even expensive Android with NFC... That is why I think Coin and Plastc - if little cheaper may be succesfull. I usually have 2-3 debt cards, one credit card and I have few bonus cards for different stores - that I do not take with me, because I like small wallet. This solves my problem.
You can't afford an expensive phone, but you can afford to spend $155 for the convenience of not carrying around 3-4 additional cards?
What 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
I have a lot of cards. Between gift cards, loyalty cards, and credit cards, I have at least 20-30 that I'd like to carry on me. I end up leaving cards I don't use every day in my car (and am always paranoid about the valet as a result). I use a KeyRing app for loyalty cards, but it's a pain and requires me often typing numbers into things. I often find myself in a Starbucks, realizing I left the Starbucks gift card i…
And I don't really see why I should need or want more cards
Am 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.
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Interesting that the list of banks is nearly the same as that of ApplePay. I'm glad there are some forward-thinking enough banks willing to push technology forward.
Or they just found a way to implement ApplePay on their card.
But yeah, they obviously found a way to implement ApplePay - hell, Apple probably did it for them.
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My favourite part of the whole idea is that in order to get the data they say it helps you with, you'll need to carry your cup everywhere. To the bar. To bed. On vacation. Who would ever do that?
The parents of a one-year-old?
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It was quite obviously either completely rendered, or rendered on top of an actual video. It felt like a plain commercial, with "cgi" added ontop of it for effect. I mean, no one expects little flying transparent windows to pop out the side of their card, do they? Of course not. So I don't think they were doing it surreptitiously, but merely to make a pretty "commercial" to sell their product.
I'm talking about the product itself, not the explanatory popups.
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The microcontroller, smart card interface, eInk screen, bluetooth capability (including antenna), NFC (including antenna), and touch screen all seem reasonable and there isn't anything earth shattering tech wise (but probably a customized asic using off the shelf bits). Connecting this all together on some fiberglass or plastic substrate is hard, and expensive to tool for (I'd expect), but definitely possible. The in…
You really believe you can fit an eink display, a touch screen digitizer, a microcontroller, bluetooth and nfc on a card that thin and sell it for 155 dollars?
Also, you could make the card thicker in areas where it doesn't matter (away from the stripe and the PIN
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> You'd need partnerships with banks to get a new secret the way Apple Pay does If this is using the EMVCo tokenization stuff, which it is widely believed that Apple is using, I don't think they would have to partner with banks. They'd just have to register with a Token Service Provider. Here's an interesting article on this: http://www.aviso.io/apple-pay-brings-new-problems-acquirers/
One gap in my understanding is who exactly the Token Service Providers are. That article says the card networks are, but I guessed that the issuing banks were when I read the spec the first time. I'll read it again eventually, but if anyone actually knows, please share that knowledge.
They 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…