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Re:Excruciating New Credit Cards Finally Give Apple Pay a Pr... by zzalpha on Sunday February 21, 2016 @12:17PM (#11145344)
Funny, we've had chip-and-pin cards in Canada for ages (which are a bit slower than swipe-and-sign but significantly more secure) and now can also pay with the card using NFC proximity readers (which are very fast). We've never had problems with either.

Sounds to me like run-of-the-mill problems with the switch rather than issues with the underlying tech.

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Re:Excruciating New Credit Cards Finally Give Apple Pay a Pr... by jinushaun on Monday February 22, 2016 @09:03AM (#11150808)
It's significantly slower here. I'd say over 5x slower. If swiping takes less than a second, the chip takes 5 seconds. I'd also blame the implementation.
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