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Apple Card comes in the smartest credit card packaging ever
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Eh, that actually looks a bit sad. Like those 'pre-approved' credit card spam we receive.
The card also doesn't look as nice as the reveal photos, especially the back of it.
The card also doesn't look as nice as the reveal photos, especially the back of it.
The card is definitely cool looking... but I think it's really a stopgap solution for the few places that don't take contactless payment (ie America).
The real card is the digital card in the phone.
The real card is the digital card in the phone.
1. Cut a hole in a box
2. Put your card in that boooox
3. Make her open the box
And that's the way you dooo iiiiit
Apple Pay exists and came before Samsung Pay.
This is literally a credit card like you're borrowing money from Apple and they're making purchase interest off you.
Most people will be doing this on the phone via Apple Pay..... but much of America still doesn't have contactless payment, hence the need for a physical card. My thinking is that they won't even release the physical card when they roll out for other countries.
Oh I thought it was just a new POS system. An actual Apple credit card is.... interesting
Also, I wasnt trying to "did it first" or anything, I was just curious because ive never needed to use a card with Samsung Pay since it does things differently than Apple Pay, and i thought this was their "solution" to that
10 years too early for chip cards? Yikes.
This is like 10 years too late for the rest of the world. We all have contactless payment.
Interesting/scary. Imagine literally being a debt slave to Apple. It's here.
We have them here but its far from ubiquitous (especially outside of big cities) and a lot of the contactless readers don't actually work. It can be a real hassle.
It's kind of hard to not have a card to hand to a waiter at a sit down restaurant or place where the swiper is on the cashier's side
Oh, yeah maybe you didn't see this:
SMARTEST PACKAGING EVER
(I think clever uses of NFC are cool, but it's a package)
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There are card companies here in the UK that do the NFC activation thing. You just tap the physical card the same way you would with contactless payment.
Maybe I'm a loser but this is the first time I've seen a card arrive in a package you just touch your phone to for activation and pairing to the wallet
Oh neat, I haven't seen this before in America
Most places have wireless contactless POS machines that they bring to your table.
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Oh, yeah maybe you didn't see this:
SMARTEST PACKAGING EVER
OP is a known Apple shill. I don't get it either but I guess s/he needs to feel the sense of superiority after paying an exuberant amount of money for Apple products. Keep it up BAD, this is just the packaging pls try again when Apple does something actually noteworthy and revolutionary.
Is that any better or worse than being a debt slave to Discover?
I pay contact-less since ~2016 in Germany, and below 25 Euro you don't even have to approve anything -- better have NFC blocking layers in your wallet!
This is similar I assume?
This is similar I assume?
I wouldn't say I get "hot and borthered", but I do find the metal build and look of my Chase Sapphire Preferred satisfying to hold and look at.
Let's just broaden it out and say people showing anything other than apathy towards how credit cards look scare me
I don't enjoy judging people for their tastes but the whole "credit card as a fashion accessory' shit deeply weirds me out
Don't usually say this but... cringe, brah.
Credit card wars gonna be a thing now smh. That card is nothing special.
Credit card wars gonna be a thing now smh. That card is nothing special.
Probably better. Apple seems to have leveraged a lot more consumer friendly practices in their terms of service compared to other credit cards.
But it's just scary to think how the Apple juggernaut will grow even more massive as they start collecting huge interest from indebted people. They bankers now.
Sadly, this is not limited to Apple and has been going on in the credit card world for a long time.
The card is not. The card is for when you don't have an NFC enabled payment terminal and is a last resort. The NFC element is in the iPhone/Watch. There's also no numbers on it. If you want to use the card on a website, the Wallet app will generate disposable credit card numbers and CVV pairs for individual transactions.
I'm reminded of that dumb prestige credit card created by the kid who went on to create the Fyre Festival....
Debt is not sexy and shouldn"t be made to look cool and appealing, especially to younger people.
A gentle shrug and utterance "well that's good I guess" should be the absolute limit in terms of praise this receives. It's a smart feature and it sounds like it's integrated well but let's not lose sight of how minor this is in the grand scheme of things.
I wouldn't go as far as fargodog but I agree with that sentiment. Credit card aesthetic pride/shame is one of the weirdest extensions of our personalities into inanimate, meaningless objects. All of it is absurd to a degree, but I can understand how certain things are fashionable/extensions of ourselves... The clothes you wear, the car you drive, maybe the phone you use, etc., there's all a level of absurdity to it... but Credit cards becoming an extension of our personal aesthetic is an odd thing, maybe not the oddest thing, but more odd than other material extensions of our aesthetic.
Probably because of what credit cards represent. Ultimately credit cards represent the requirement to borrow money for something that we don't have at that time. Even if you use your card smartly, always pay it off, use it for the points, etc., credit cards wouldn't exist if the majority of the credit was responsible credit, and so ultimately they represent some type of financial irresponsibility (and I know, borrowing isn't necessarily irresponsible, most borrowing is responsible, but credit cards are probably the most common example of irresponsible borrowing)... And so it's odd that we've turned an object of financial irresponsibility into a fashionable extension of ourselves that we're proud of.
But, still, fuck me I want the heaviest card when we all throw them down at a restaurant.
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Apple isn't a bank now any more than Amazon or Best Buy are. It's an Apple rewards card from an actual bank.
Credit cards don't imply debt. Especially rewards cards.
..I mean, most credit cards just come in an mailing envelope. I presume the OP was tongue in cheek?