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		dickersnoodle 34 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market ... "Monopoly abuse"? Apple Pay was a huge leap forward in preventing credit card info theft, to the point that I only buy gas at stations that use Apple Pay to avoid having my bank account emptied by someone running a pump skimmer.

Steltek 34 days ago | [–]

Uhh, do you mean contactless payments? That wasn't Apple. Apple wasn't even the first to offer it on phones. Android beat them by 3 years.

bigyabai 34 days ago | [–]

...Apple didn't invent the credit card proxy. Their biggest "innovation" was locking it into their walled garden.

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