These belong in the beta subreddits listed below. The proper place for advice is /r/AppleWhatShouldIBuy. No posts or comments relating to buying, selling, trading, giveaways or asking for advice about any of those topics.No content related to piracy or illegal activities.Before posting, read the detailed rules here. Self-promotion is allowed on Sundays only, strictly reserved for app developers and must be in the form of a self-post. We may approve your post if it is a high-level issue that can't be found through searches, or if it affects a large amount of people. No support questions outside of the Daily Advice Thread.No posts that aren’t directly related to Apple or the Apple eco-system.No rude, offensive, or hateful comments.No editorialized link titles (use the original source's title if applicable).Posts must foster reasonable discussion.No memes, direct images or contextless image/video posts.If you have a tech or buying/selling-related question, please check out our Daily Advice Thread or r/AppleHelp! CommunityĪ more in-depth version of the rules can be found here Meaning, you can use a Galaxy S6 with almost any old terminal.Welcome to r/Apple, the unofficial community for Apple news, rumors, and discussions. With the acquisition of LoopPay, the company integrated a technology that allows the phone to work with NFC-free magnetic stripe card readers. Until then, Samsung Pay will work in a lot more places. When that happens, it's likely that most of those terminals will also be NFC-ready. Card issuers like Visa will be required to use the more secure chip-and-PIN cards, forcing retailers to adopt more modern credit card terminals.

That's not an issue in Europe, where chip-and-PIN terminals are ubiquitous.īy 2016, the US could be on the same track.

In the US, it's estimated that less than 300,000 merchants are equipped to accept NFC-based mobile payments, which is just a small fraction of the millions of retailers nationwide. Mobile payments are great - as long as you can use them. And unlike Apple Pay, we don't yet know if you'll have to unlock your device before completing these steps. With Samsung Pay, you first have to choose your credit card, scan your fingerprint and then tap the phone to the terminal.

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