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Re: Phone tap and go

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On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 21:12:21 +0100, Whiskers
<catwheezel@operamail.com> wrote:

>On 2016-08-21, F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.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).  A shop
>checkout or a bus door or a railway turnstile are not good places to be
>waving costly hardware about.  As for letting any smartphone have access
>to a bank account - the mind boggles.

No fishing is involved.

As for "mess around getting the right app running"?? I don't do any of
that. I just pull the phone out of my pocket and hold it up to the
terminal. Transaction complete.

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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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