@pelapp Agreed...why not allow people to pay from their mobiles without the use of a card...set up a web server and create an account system that allows people to save their credit card info but maybe require a PIN or the CVV2 \ last 4 digits along with a password, whatever - something to make it secure. That's a hell of a lot more innovative than some piece of plastic that sucks an iphones battery for no reason.
@pelapp I agree a wireless chip would be largely favored like the wireless chip (Sony's TransferJet for instance). I would most likely avoid places that did it on an iPhone.
@pelapp I agree to a certain degree, but this could be beneficial to the extent that it is allowing peer to peer payment between a large number of individuals who would otherwise only be able to through currency or (laugh) checks. What you are talking about sounds somewhere along the lines of digital money or at least the part of the idea. This article explains the idea from one perspective...
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This is exactly how mobile payment ISN'T supposed to work..
Mobile payment should work by only using your mobile phone, either by software, through the internet or a built in chip..
This is just a card machine, that doesn't do anything new, and is only getting press, because it connects to an iphone.
@pelapp
Agreed...why not allow people to pay from their mobiles without the use of a card...set up a web server and create an account system that allows people to save their credit card info but maybe require a PIN or the CVV2 \ last 4 digits along with a password, whatever - something to make it secure. That's a hell of a lot more innovative than some piece of plastic that sucks an iphones battery for no reason.
@pelapp
I agree a wireless chip would be largely favored like the wireless chip (Sony's TransferJet for instance). I would most likely avoid places that did it on an iPhone.
@pelapp
I agree to a certain degree, but this could be beneficial to the extent that it is allowing peer to peer payment between a large number of individuals who would otherwise only be able to through currency or (laugh) checks. What you are talking about sounds somewhere along the lines of digital money or at least the part of the idea. This article explains the idea from one perspective...
http://www.moneyweek.com/news-and-charts/economics/is-this-the-end-of-cash-as-we-know-it.aspx