I Waited 19 Months for the Magic Coin Card and It Was a Big Disappointment

Re:I Waited 19 Months for the Magic Coin Card and It Was a B... by Glide on Monday July 13, 2015 @02:15PM (#9879895)

My experience mirrors your own. It's really convenient in stores where you have to swipe your own card rather than hand your card to the cashier. Apple Pay on the watch is better than the phone too.

And I've picked Walgreens over CVS several times because of Apple Pay.

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Re:I Waited 19 Months for the Magic Coin Card and It Was a B... by mikeash on Monday July 13, 2015 @02:27PM (#9879968)

Thirded. The hard part of Apple Pay is figuring out whether you can use it. The NFC icon isn't always obvious. When in doubt, I don't try. But when I do try, it's fast and easy. I just wait until the terminal shows my total, then I hold my phone up and it goes through. It's not a game-changer or anything, but it's a nice convenience.

(One exception to the above: Home Depot had terminals that claimed to do NFC but would hang for a while and eventually time out and error if I tried Apple Pay. That was annoying.)

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Re:I Waited 19 Months for the Magic Coin Card and It Was a B... by cwe on Thursday July 16, 2015 @11:36AM (#9897840)

In the US a lot of terminals that technically could support Apple Pay because they use NFC (and have the logo you mention) have explicitly disabled Apple Pay support. So the scanner 'sees' the watch and kinda starts the transaction, then fails later because it's "not supported yet". Because they have a vested interest in a competing product.

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