{"id":26438,"date":"2019-08-30T17:28:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T21:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26438"},"modified":"2019-08-30T17:31:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T21:31:05","slug":"downsides-of-apple-card-being-titanium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/30\/downsides-of-apple-card-being-titanium\/","title":{"rendered":"Downsides of Apple Card Being Titanium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffgeerling.com\/blog\/2019\/physical-apple-card-case-form-over-function\">Jeff Geerling<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=20841896\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.jeffgeerling.com\/blog\/2019\/physical-apple-card-case-form-over-function\">\n<p>The card feels amazing to hold. But because it&rsquo;s finely machined Titanium, those beautiful edges also mean sensitive fingers (e.g. anyone with dry skin or problems such as eczema) can be damaged just by pulling the card out of a slot in a wallet or sleeve. This is not as big an issue with plastic as the sides do not maintain a perfect edge for very long.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I use a &lsquo;back of the iPhone&rsquo; wallet, which is basically a little pocket that holds my driver&rsquo;s license, insurance card, and a credit card (for pesky retailers who don&rsquo;t accept contactless payment yet). With any modern iPhone, the Apple Card acts as a perfect RF block for Qi wireless charging (which operates in the 80+ kHz range). This means, if you are like me, and store your credit card in an iPhone case, say goodbye to the ability to charge wirelessly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, one commenter <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=20842350\">disputes<\/a> that the edges remain sharp.<\/p>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/22\/storing-your-apple-card-wrong\/\">Storing Your Apple Card Wrong<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Geerling (via Hacker News): The card feels amazing to hold. But because it&rsquo;s finely machined Titanium, those beautiful edges also mean sensitive fingers (e.g. anyone with dry skin or problems such as eczema) can be damaged just by pulling the card out of a slot in a wallet or sleeve. This is not as [&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":"2019-08-30T21:28:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"c8023d51-7699-4ec1-8c17-bf0107a055ac","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-08-30T21:31:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AyAI9UXaZTsGMF78BB6BVrA","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":[1788,77,85,1578],"class_list":["post-26438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-card","tag-design","tag-iphone","tag-qi-charging"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26438","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=26438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26445,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26438\/revisions\/26445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}