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On Thursday April 25 2024, Aug said the following...

 Au> What are your thoughts on using Google Pay or Apple Pay with your
 Au> phones? As a retailer I'm finding an increasing choice by customers to
 Au> use the NFC (near field communications) feature on their phones and
 Au> using the google or Apple version to make payments.

I've been using my Apple Watch for NFC payments for a few years.  It's already
on my wrist and I just need to double tap a button to bring up my debit card. 
Every now & then I'll encounter a place that doesn't have tap (or
interestingly at one restaurant, tap works for credit cards but not debit
cards) and need to use my actual card with chip & pin.

I remember one of the first times I used my watch to pay, it was at a grocery
store with this little old lady at the cash register.  I tapped my watch and
she looked so confused, the receipt popped out and she asked "did you just
hack my terminal?"

Another time more recently, I was buying cat food & a much younger girl was
scanning my purchases.  I used my watch to pay again and she was like "Wait! 
Did you just use your watch to pay!?  Can you show me how to do that!?".  She
had an Apple watch on as well and usually used her phone to pay, not knowing
she could also use her watch.  There was no one else in line behind me so I
showed her how to add her cards to her watch.

What I like about using Apple Pay is when I add my debit card to my phone or
my watch a new virtual card number is generated for that card/device
combination.  The card number on my phone is different than the one on my
watch, so I can pay without exposing my physical card number.  Apple Pay also
uses "transaction-specific dynamic security codes" which can help protect
against someone capturing that information to use again (card skimming).


Jay

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