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Apple announces Apple Card credit card
At Apple's "show time" services event today, it announced a new Apple Card credit card, promising to improve things about the credit card experience with simpler applications, no fees, lower interest rates, and better rewards.
To get an Apple Card, users will be able to sign up on their iPhone in the Apple Wallet app and get a digital card that they can use anywhere Apple Pay is accepted "within minutes." Customers will also be able to track purchases, check balances, and see when their bill is due right from the app. There will be a physical titanium card, too, but there's no credit card number, CVV, expiration date, or signature. All of that authorization information is stored directly in the Apple Wallet app.
Apple also says that it'll use machine learning and Apple Maps to label stores that you use in the app, and use that data to track purchases across categories like "food and drink" or "shopping." [...] Like many of Apple's products, privacy is a big push here. "Apple doesn't know what you bought, where you bought it, and how much you paid for it," said Jennifer Bailey, VP of Apple Pay. All of the spending tracking and other information is stored directly on the device, not Apple's servers. The company also promises that "Goldman Sachs will never sell your data to third parties for marketing and advertising."
Other companies have offered 3-4% cash back for certain purchases.
Also at Ars Technica.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday March 27 2019, @10:13PM (1 child)
Well, instead of paying an extra 6% to subsidize your 5% discount, I just buy the stuff online, where they charge an extra 3% to cover my 2% cash back CC.
Target's price ends up higher, so they lose customers, and the city bitches that it gets empty storefronts.
Of course the people without CC just subsidize us all, except that they bother to go coupon-hunting, so they think I'm subsidizing them.
Glory to the system that makes you believe that you're always shafting someone else, and rests on making you fear you'll lose everything!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 28 2019, @03:04PM
I would never spend the effort to do coupon-ing.
Simply using CCs and paying them is pretty easy. How hard is that? My utility bills are on auto-pay to the CC.
Buy groceries use CC. Buy fuel, use CC. Buy Target, use Target CC. Buy Walmart, use CC. Buy Amazon, use Amazon CC. Etc.
Just don't buy things you wouldn't write a check for right now.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.