 | | Google is becoming too gigantic I'm very leery about a single company that has access to all sorts of data primarily email, search and phone data now handling bank/money transactions.
I'll stick with cash and if I'm in a jam I'll just use my atm/debit card. | |
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| rest of the world If someone more familiar with these payment system can chime in, but I've seen such systems used in Hong Kong several years ago. I'm assuming other countries in the asia and europe already has this in place. So why are there so much technical challenges to deploy it here? | |
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 |  | | Re: rest of the world said by pkorx8:So why are there so much technical challenges to deploy it here? Because our phones are locked down (and subsidized) by the carriers and they have no incentive to allow this as they don't get a cut of each transaction. If it costs $0.10 more to make the phones that's $0.10 more per phone they have to eat, and when it breaks they are the ones who have to pay for the support staff to troubleshoot it (as it's part of the phone).
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 |  |  | | Re: rest of the world you forgot to add that over half of the networks here in the USA also are CDMA. Unlike other countries that generally us GSM- GB where they can use the unlocked phones and don't have to worry about one huge ass data-base. Plug in a new SIM and off you go. | |
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 |  |  |  BF69Premium join:2004-07-28 Camden, TN | Re: rest of the world said by 25139889:you forgot to add that over half of the networks here in the USA also are CDMA. Unlike other countries that generally us GSM- GB where they can use the unlocked phones and don't have to worry about one huge ass data-base. Plug in a new SIM and off you go. Once the mobile companies commit 100% to LTE that won't be an issue. | |
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 | | Can someone with knowledge about it explain how it works? Does it take credit card companies out of the loop completely? And whatever you "charged" to your phone will appear on your phone bill? | |
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| Re: Can someone with knowledge about it explain how it works? You attach a debit card or prepay google wallet and pay with the nfc on the back of your phone. Then it comes out of your bank acct. or wallet balance. Like a mobil speedpass if you are familiar with that. No bill to carrier option. edit: I used it for about 6 months on my Nexus 4g and really liked it. It also got alot of attention when people notice you paying w your phone. | |
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 | | Would never Would never trust Google with anything related to my bank account information. They lost my company's email services and personal services when they decided to have an issue and wanted me to pay out the ass for support and wait a week. | |
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 SteveI know your IP addressConsultant join:2001-03-10 Yorba Linda, CA kudos:5 | First item on the meeting agenda... "How do we make sure that the consumer or the merchant bears all the risk, and we don't bear any?" | |
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 AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium join:2003-02-06 Onion, NJ kudos:1 | is it NFC based? | |
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