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Re:Apple Pay and the rise of the five-party network by aianus on Thursday June 15, 2017 @08:42AM (#14559817)
You like it because the costs are hidden from you. I bet you'd think twice about using your card to pay for your hotdog (or even something like a MacBook) if they explicitly passed the fees onto you and you could opt out with cash.

There's room for both systems for different kinds of transactions with different kinds of merchants.

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Re:Apple Pay and the rise of the five-party network by diogenescynic on Thursday June 15, 2017 @08:02PM (#14565511)
As a merchant, they would pay those fees--so no, the costs are not hidden for them. Did you miss that part?
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