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Re:CurrentC: The Big Retailers’ Clunky Attempt to Kill Apple... by martingordon on Monday October 27, 2014 @12:08AM (#8513764)
Contactless was a thing here in the US, but at least in my experience, it's going away. I've had a few credit cards replaced over the past couple of months (one Chase, one Amex) and while they've gained an EMV chip, they've also lost contactless functionality (which went by Blink and ExpressPay respectively).
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Re:CurrentC: The Big Retailers’ Clunky Attempt to Kill Apple... by stephen_g on Monday October 27, 2014 @01:59AM (#8514098)
That's interesting, because in Australia they're really popular and both EMV and PayPass/PayWave came in at the same time and use the same chip in the card. You can actually see the RFID antenna terminating in the EMV chip in one of my cards which is semi-transparent.
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