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I was always surprised there wasn't an uproar about these. A substantial chunk of Americans, i.e. a huge portion of evangelicals, devoutly believe a few things: * The Bible book of "Revelations" is an accurate prediction of things that will happen exactly as described. * Revelations predicts that in "the end times", it will become impossible to buy or sell anything without "the mark of the beast" on their forehead or…
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I used them in whole foods all the time
sincere, non-trolling question: Why? You clearly saw some value in the convenience. Smartphone and smartwatch NFC offers that convenience everywhere . Even setting up palm authentication feels like unnecessary work.
They must have collected enough bio-metric data, or deemed hand prints to be not useful.
The tech here was good but the product implementation was terrible. These scanners just showed up randomly in places and just sat there unused. I literally both saw them all over and never actually saw anyone use it. No clear onboarding pathway, no explanation as to what it did or why use it, no clarity on what happens to the data. Just a box sitting there. It was as if all the focus was on the tech and nobody bother…
What problem was it solving though? NFC contactless payments is already pretty fast and convenient. I feel like Amazon One Palm was invented to solve for a problem we didn't really have. Thus the failure.
Gym entry system where you can't share your entry fob with a buddy
Corporate access control system, no need for a guard to deal with people who've forgotten their cards.
Time clock where it's impossible for workers to clock other people in/out.
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I used them in whole foods all the time
sincere, non-trolling question: Why? You clearly saw some value in the convenience. Smartphone and smartwatch NFC offers that convenience everywhere . Even setting up palm authentication feels like unnecessary work.
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Haha no. US commerce improvements tend to trail EU by a decade. We just got tap to pay a couple of years ago. People still pass bits of paper with signatures on them to pay each other for stuff.
> We just got tap to pay a couple of years ago You mean NFC payments? :| Oh, and checks too? I guess things were very different than my assumption, interesting thing to have learned today. Thanks!
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Amazon prime is tied to your credit card. One single action to pay: tap credit card against reader Why do you have so many hoops to jump through like presenting QR code and tapping watch
I would love that, but it doesn't seem to happen for me if I use the credit card that I have linked to my Amazon Prime membership as the payment method. When I tap it doesn't recognize my Prime membership. Do you have the Amazon Prime credit card perhaps? The reason why I did the QR code and watch tap thing prior to the palm thing is that I didn't want to carry a single-use credit card. I'd love the functionality you…
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I used them in whole foods all the time
sincere, non-trolling question: Why? You clearly saw some value in the convenience. Smartphone and smartwatch NFC offers that convenience everywhere . Even setting up palm authentication feels like unnecessary work.
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sincere, non-trolling question: Why? You clearly saw some value in the convenience. Smartphone and smartwatch NFC offers that convenience everywhere . Even setting up palm authentication feels like unnecessary work.
I like to go running with nothing on me besides a house key, and it's useful to be able to stop by Whole Foods after the run and buy a snack without a phone, watch, or wallet.