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Re:I Waited 19 Months for the Magic Coin Card and It Was a B... by claytonjy on Monday July 13, 2015 @01:47PM (#9879699)
Does anyone here have a competing "magic card", like Stratos/Plastc/Swype? I don't, but I'm curious if they all have these reader incompatibility issues or if some are engineered better than this one.

Edit: added names of other competing cards

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Re:I Waited 19 Months for the Magic Coin Card and It Was a B... by claytonjy on Monday July 13, 2015 @01:52PM (#9879748)
Here's a good comparison of the 4 big ones: http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/off-topic/coin-vs-pl...

They mention that Coin doesn't support "Track1 data" which prevents it from working at lots of big retailers

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