{"id":13803,"date":"2016-03-08T12:07:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T17:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13803"},"modified":"2016-03-08T12:07:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T17:07:29","slug":"why-i-started-using-apple-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/08\/why-i-started-using-apple-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Started Using Apple Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/02\/long-checkout-lines-finally-give-apple-pay-a-problem-to-solve\/\">Cade Metz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/02\/long-checkout-lines-finally-give-apple-pay-a-problem-to-solve\/\">\n<p>As you wait in line with your razor blades and Softsoap, some other poor soul will swipe their credit card through the reader on the counter&mdash;and nothing will happen, because it&rsquo;s one of those new chip cards designed for better security. Then, a (slightly exasperated) cashier will tell this poor soul to push the card into a slot at the front of the reader. The poor soul will do this&mdash;and nothing will happen again, because the new chip tech is horribly slow.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>My local drugstore is a CVS, and the card readers are made by a company called Verifone. But all this sorrow is only partly their fault. The problem also lies with the new chip technology itself. The big-name credit card companies are forcing stores across the country to adopt this &ldquo;EMV&rdquo; tech (short for Europay, MasterCard, and Visa), and at best, it&rsquo;s noticeably slower than paying with a good old fashioned magnetic stripe card. At worst, you&rsquo;re stuck in line at CVS for ten minutes with your razor blades and Softsoap while some sort of archaic cash register reboots itself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I was <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/10\/apple-pay\/\">initially<\/a> skeptical of Apple Pay because it didn&rsquo;t seem like it would be faster, and I have to carry the credit cards, anyway. Since then, Apple made Touch ID much faster. And merchants started using these chip readers that are shockingly slow and often fail to work on the first try.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cade Metz: As you wait in line with your razor blades and Softsoap, some other poor soul will swipe their credit card through the reader on the counter&mdash;and nothing will happen, because it&rsquo;s one of those new chip cards designed for better security. Then, a (slightly exasperated) cashier will tell this poor soul to push [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[995,31,169,573],"class_list":["post-13803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-pay","tag-ios","tag-payments","tag-touch-id"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13804,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803\/revisions\/13804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}