Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: Data-Only SIMS, Google Voice, SMS Forwarding, and WeChat in China Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 07:04:39 +1000 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <280820181057571194%nospam@nospam.invalid> <280820181344320869%nospam@nospam.invalid> <290820181148556915%nospam@nospam.invalid> <290820182306451946%nospam@nospam.invalid> <300820180958221270%nospam@nospam.invalid> <310820181230159097%nospam@nospam.invalid> <8eikod53d7rb7rqo32u0ho35hevq79htic@4ax.com> <010920181040332189%nospam@nospam.invalid> <010920181643530270%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ak/y69dPkB1PSv8MTOeUzA3PPvn1K8qmKgFTaE+gjrNads3YM= Cancel-Lock: sha1:MYadRryzcmPxpy8UVM1YCEeUo40= In-Reply-To: <010920181643530270%nospam@nospam.invalid> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:55437 misc.phone.mobile.iphone:113379 nospam wrote > Rod Speed wrote >>> paying cash is normally faster, >> BULLSHIT. > not bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit, as always with you. > other than people who fish for exact > change (which is rare), cash is very fast. ApplePay is much faster, you pathetic excuse for a bullshit artist. And you have to fart around getting the cash from the ATM too. >>> credit card payment terminals often require one or more >>> taps to confirm the purchase, although that's much better >>> now that signatures are no longer required. sometimes a >>> card is not readable and requires multiple swipes, dips or taps. >> And apple pay is even faster and never needs >> one or more taps to confirm purchase. > sometimes it does need additional taps, Hardly ever, just with the major item purchase. Last time I had to was a new battery for the car. I don't have to for tires for the car. > depending on the card and payment system, regardless > if it's apple pay or not, including a choice of credit/debit > /giftcard, confirming the amount and/or a pin code. Never any choice with applepay. > in some cases, the cashier has to take an extra step to > submit the total amount to enable the contactless reader. Never happens here. Some of your retailers have fucked systems.