09-11-2014, 02:06 PM
And it's a good thing Apple convinced Eddy Cue to stay on a while and shepard this initiative through. Apart from Jobs, he's just about the only guy that could meet with record label execs ... or banks ... and pull this kind of thing off.
OK, he wasn't shouting, I just copy/pasted from the Verge's pullquote. But that's the quote from the Keynote that resonated with me, and it was clearly the same message as "We realized that all cellphones are crap" from Jobs' 2007 Keynote. It's a game changer for fundamentally altering the mechanics of how we pay, AND for adding another layer of security.
Less than 3% of U.S. merchants who accept MC-Visa are ready with NFC, but they're all gonna have to get new hardware by next year anyway, if they want to continue to take "plastic" because of banks' rollout of chipped cards. So I think NFC is about to piggyback onto that.
Tim Cook, during the Keynote wrote:
"A BUSINESS MODEL THAT WAS CENTERED AROUND THEIR SELF-INTEREST INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON THE USER EXPERIENCE."
OK, he wasn't shouting, I just copy/pasted from the Verge's pullquote. But that's the quote from the Keynote that resonated with me, and it was clearly the same message as "We realized that all cellphones are crap" from Jobs' 2007 Keynote. It's a game changer for fundamentally altering the mechanics of how we pay, AND for adding another layer of security.
Less than 3% of U.S. merchants who accept MC-Visa are ready with NFC, but they're all gonna have to get new hardware by next year anyway, if they want to continue to take "plastic" because of banks' rollout of chipped cards. So I think NFC is about to piggyback onto that.