{"id":26268,"date":"2019-08-13T14:59:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T18:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26268"},"modified":"2020-07-03T08:55:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T12:55:29","slug":"apple-card-lacks-web-interface-sends-push-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/13\/apple-card-lacks-web-interface-sends-push-notifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Card Lacks Web Interface, Sends Push Notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicole Nguyen<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple Card has an iPhone-only interface. If you lose said iPhone and need to make a payment, Apple’s recommendation is to use a second iOS device (eg. iPad) or call support (not, presumably, with the phone you just lost).<\/p>\n

In other words, despite its titanium, futuristic-veneer Apple Card does not afford you what nearly every other credit card does: a website accessible on desktop that gives you the flexibility to pay bills or see transactions from any device.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Great, so you can’t export your data or view it on a large screen. And this will probably be like Apple’s other purchased\/billing interfaces, where you can’t select and copy text and the searching is very basic, if there at all.<\/p>\n\n

The Tape Drive<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple will target users for marketing emails and push notifications based on their transaction history. “For example, Apple may send a message to your device that is relevant to people who typically purchase travel.” Apple might have been able to negotiate reduced fees by agreeing to allow advertising to Apple Card users.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Via CM Harrington<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This is the kind of bullshit you get when you become a ‘services’ company… “We don’t allow marketing push notifications unless they’re our<\/em> marketing push notifications”. No thanks, Tim Apple.<\/p>\n

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I WANT to have push notices for my transactions. I don’t want Apple to look at my transaction history and decide I should be marketed at OD is even creepier. it means there’s a daemon always watching my purchases for marketing opportunities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Jon Alper<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apparently the message is sent globally and then evaluated on device as to whether to delver to you based on what the device knows. Yes, sucks you can’t get notifications of transactions and not get marketing messages.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

And receiving these marketing messages is going to use up cellular data, too.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n