Re:CurrentC: The Big Retailers’ Clunky Attempt to Kill Apple...
by SwellJoe on Monday October 27, 2014 @12:31AM
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Former Walmart CEO Lee Scott reportedly once said “I don’t know that MCX will succeed, and I don’t care. As long as Visa suffers.”
I want Visa to suffer, too. So, I'll likely use this. It's not clear to me if it is point of sale only, or if it'll work in an online context. The QR code thing would be an intolerably bad experience online, of course (and it's a pretty clumsy experience offline)...but, if the payment network is not intimately tied to the method of verifying the owner of the account, I could see it being possible to handle payments without the QR code.
And, if the people implementing this stuff aren't entirely incompetent, I'd be surprised if they don't implement a non-QR code method in the future, including NFC. The end user app really isn't the hard part of this equation.
I want Visa to suffer, too. So, I'll likely use this. It's not clear to me if it is point of sale only, or if it'll work in an online context. The QR code thing would be an intolerably bad experience online, of course (and it's a pretty clumsy experience offline)...but, if the payment network is not intimately tied to the method of verifying the owner of the account, I could see it being possible to handle payments without the QR code.
And, if the people implementing this stuff aren't entirely incompetent, I'd be surprised if they don't implement a non-QR code method in the future, including NFC. The end user app really isn't the hard part of this equation.