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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by etchalon on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:46PM (#10195759)
What are you talking about? Passbook was never a payment system, it just had gift cards. Passbook isn't a payment system NOW. Apple Pay is, Passbook is just the app that shows users their credit cards.
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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by bduerst on Thursday September 10, 2015 @12:04AM (#10196086)
Right, Passbook was Apple's first play at mobile payments. They were trying to build an app ecosystem that used credits to to make mobile payments. It was Apple's response to NFC which wasn't very good.
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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by etchalon on Thursday September 10, 2015 @01:15AM (#10196236)
It wasn't a mobile payments play, though. It was a solution to storing things like movie tickets, airline tickets, gift card vouchers, etc. "Payment" was never in its vocabulary.
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