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Re:Apple announces Apple Card credit card by nerfhammer on Monday March 25, 2019 @02:16PM (#19485110)
Probably a temporary CC number generator for internet purchases.

You would not be able to "choose" a vanity number of your own choosing besides being really insecure but also because CC numbers have to fit an algorithmic pattern to be valid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm

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Re:Apple announces Apple Card credit card by wnevets on Monday March 25, 2019 @02:47PM (#19485484)
Wasn't expecting a vanity number but creating a different number for each service. Something like what capital one has [1]. There would be a number for Netflix and a different number for fios.

[1]https://www.capitalone.com/applications/eno/virtualnumbers/

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Re:Apple announces Apple Card credit card by nerfhammer on Monday March 25, 2019 @03:48PM (#19486106)
Oh, lots of card issuers have that these days.
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