Apple Pay’s long road to paying off is getting shorter

Re:Apple Pay’s long road to paying off is getting shorter by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @01:16AM (#35696767)

I’m oldish, and no longer carry around a wallet. I don’t even whip out a phone to play for things, I just tap my watch. This was after 9 years in China, where, given that WeChat payments wouldn’t support foreigners without Chinese ID cards yet, I carried around wads of RMB the whole time.

I also have a MagSafe wallet. But if Washington state would support digital driver licenses and Seattle metro had a wallet based transit pay app, I wouldn’t really need that either.

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Re:Apple Pay’s long road to paying off is getting shorter by asplake on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @02:44AM (#35697273)

Also oldish. In our household we refer to coins as “parking tokens”, but even that usage is becoming obsolete (notwithstanding that parking machine UX is too often a horror show)

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Re:Apple Pay’s long road to paying off is getting shorter by zamnos on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @05:29AM (#35698235)

I've taken it for granted that my parking meters take credit card at the meter (or at the payment machine), but on top of that there's an app/website and you can plug in the serial number of the parking space to pay.

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Re:Apple Pay’s long road to paying off is getting shorter by ghaff on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @08:06AM (#35699316)

I have a big bucket full of coins that I need to take to the coin machine at the supermarket while such still exist.

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