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Not Quite Right With more and more cards switching to chips rather than magnetic strips, makes one think magnetic strips are being phased out in the near future. Now saying that it makes perfect sense Apple would focus more on NFC readers than a technology that is destined to go away ...
That makes sense. I do hope that it will allow Apple Pay to be more widespread. In my town, I can use it at Walgreens, McDonald's, and Best Buy. Not Wal-Mart, Sears, any home improvement store, etc. Whereas I can use the other platform at any of those places, including the "Mom and Pop " stores. Maybe it's because Samsung bought the company that uses the magnetic stripe technology, I don't know. I like both phone platforms, but am Apple at heart. I am totally in their ecosystem. It's just the mobile pay platform that I feel like they have dropped the ball.