Apple Pay Faces Challenge as CVS, Rite Aid Reject System

Re:Apple Pay Faces Challenge as CVS, Rite Aid Reject System by Someone1234 on Monday October 27, 2014 @03:24PM (#8517591)

So the CurrentC people are trying to assure CurrentC's future by pissing off the very same companies that they need to authorise their app? That seems like they're shooting themselves in the foot.

What are they going to do if Apple in particular rejects CurrentC as an app? Do it via HTML5/WebKit? Cannot see the user experience on that being particularly good.

Plus as people on Reddit pointed out, with Apple Pay/Google Wallet, the liability for fraud is still with the banks. With CurrentC you MIGHT be liable for any fraud in the US (because of how credit and debit fraud is handled).

PS - The name "CurrentC" is just terrible. Least memorable name ever. They should have just called it "Vanilla."

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Re:Apple Pay Faces Challenge as CVS, Rite Aid Reject System by Osmium on Monday October 27, 2014 @03:28PM (#8517619)

> So the CurrentC people are trying to assure CurrentC's future by pissing off the very same companies that they need to authorise their app?

And also the very people who are most likely to be first-adopters for a new payment platform...

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Re:Apple Pay Faces Challenge as CVS, Rite Aid Reject System by omarrr on Monday October 27, 2014 @09:21PM (#8519072)

^^^ This

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Re:Apple Pay Faces Challenge as CVS, Rite Aid Reject System by guelo on Monday October 27, 2014 @03:36PM (#8517684)

Apple needs the big retailers too. People are getting mad at the retailers for playing the same ruthless hardball that Apple plays all the time.

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Re:Apple Pay Faces Challenge as CVS, Rite Aid Reject System by SG- on Monday October 27, 2014 @04:19PM (#8517933)

I'm not so sure if Apple needs Apple Pay to work everywhere, it's just another thing to make Apple experience "better". If people love it, then people might start buying only at stores that support it.

It turns out people that use Apple devices and services end up spending money and like staying inside that ecosystem.

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Re:Apple Pay Faces Challenge as CVS, Rite Aid Reject System by MBCook on Monday October 27, 2014 @03:26PM (#8517608)

I actually thought the name was sort of clever.

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Re:Apple Pay Faces Challenge as CVS, Rite Aid Reject System by wfjackson on Monday October 27, 2014 @04:01PM (#8517832)

>What are they going to do if Apple in particular rejects CurrentC as an app?

File an anti-trust complaint? One need not be a monopoly in order to face anti-trust charges. E.g. See the ebook price fixing charge.

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Re:Apple Pay Faces Challenge as CVS, Rite Aid Reject System by ceejayoz on Monday October 27, 2014 @04:11PM (#8517881)

> File an anti-trust complaint?

Good luck to them with that one. "Waaaah! Apple blocked our payment service!" "Why'd they do that?" "We blocked theirs!"

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Re:Apple Pay Faces Challenge as CVS, Rite Aid Reject System by slouch on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @12:49PM (#8521907)

The app is already available in Apple's store.

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