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Re: Phone tap and go

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In article <slrnnrk2p5.864.catwheezel@ID-107770.user.individual.net>,
Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> wrote:

> > What does google get  from Android bank tap and go, and what is apple 
> > wanting for its offering(there is some sort of argument with Apple and a 
> > bunch of Australian banks).
> 
> I can't understand why anyone would fish out an expensive smartphone and
> mess around getting the right app running in order to do something that
> a smartcard can do without even being taken out of your wallet (and
> which has been happening in the UK for some time already). 

because it's more secure than tapping a card and not everywhere
supports contactless cards either.

> A shop
> checkout or a bus door or a railway turnstile are not good places to be
> waving costly hardware about. 

don't wave where you're not comfortable. 

and plenty of people are *on* their phone while at a checkout or on a
train, so their phone is already out.

> As for letting any smartphone have access
> to a bank account - the mind boggles.

there is no access to your bank account.

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Phone tap and go F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-08-22 01:42 +1000
  Re: Phone tap and go VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-08-21 12:14 -0500
    Re: Phone tap and go nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-21 13:37 -0400
    Re: Phone tap and go F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-08-22 15:00 +1000
      Re: Phone tap and go Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2016-08-22 08:10 +0000
  Re: Phone tap and go Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2016-08-21 21:12 +0100
    Re: Phone tap and go nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-21 16:39 -0400
    Re: Phone tap and go Chris in Makati <mail@nospam.com> - 2016-08-22 11:15 +0800

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