iphone 8 thread
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I'm open to buying the iPhone 8, especially if there ends up being a dark mode in iOS. OLED significantly helps with battery life as long as the UI uses darker colors (e.g. white text on a dark gray/black background).
I generally double-tap on the Home button instead of relying on the phone to detect the NFC field; it was a lot faster with my old iPhone 6 in my experience. (However, there might not be much difference with the 6s and above.) I mention this because facial recognition might not be a huge issue if NFC is set to turn on whenever the phone is unlocked, which is what Android Pay seems to do. Of course, facial recognition still needs to unlock the phone reliably.
50% in theory, but how are those places distributed and can one actually use it at all of those places? In my experience a lot of major stores don't train their employees all that well, don't even mention NFC capability on the screen (despite being enabled) and/or make terminals difficult to impossible for customers to access. Realistically it's probably less than 50% considering all that, but it has gotten better.
Restaurants in general are really reluctant to spend money unless they absolutely have to. Low usage of contactless payment + chip and signature + potential (and possibly actual) backlash from customers due to bringing the terminal to the table == keeping things the way they are. More likely what'll happen is restaurants will start letting people pay their bills via mobile apps instead, which accomplishes much the same thing but without requiring nearly the investment that replacing terminals requires.
That said, California Pizza Kitchen and Denny's will let you use Apple Pay but you'll have to pay at the counter.
I'll take a wait-and-see. I'm particularly interested in seeing how the home-button rumors work out. If in fact Apple was unsuccessful implementing touch-id under the glass and the other rumor plays out -- i.e. facial recognition -- then I'll definitely hold out. I'm very happy with touch-id and Apple Pay. Though there are relatively few places in the US with terminals that accept Apple Pay, I've used it lots in other countries and don't want to lose that feature.
That said, California Pizza Kitchen and Denny's will let you use Apple Pay but you'll have to pay at the counter.
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The problem I have with Apple Pay is that there's no easy way to determine if a store accepts it. Sometimes they have the wifi looking symbol and don't take it. Having to memorize the names of stores that accept it or asking the cashier kind of defeats the purpose (and the cashiers don't know sometimes.)
I'm planning to get the iPhone 8. I'm not thrilled at the idea of losing Touch ID but one of the mics is failing on my 6S+ so I'm not sure if I could get another year out of it.
I'm planning to get the iPhone 8. I'm not thrilled at the idea of losing Touch ID but one of the mics is failing on my 6S+ so I'm not sure if I could get another year out of it.
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I was seriously annoyed this morning when I was on the bus and not one but two people wanted to pay with ApplePay. I've nothing against the technology but I do object when people aren't ready to pay with it and hold the bus up. One woman still had her phone in her bag and took a minute to find it.
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I was seriously annoyed this morning when I was on the bus and not one but two people wanted to pay with ApplePay. I've nothing against the technology but I do object when people aren't ready to pay with it and hold the bus up. One woman still had her phone in her bag and took a minute to find it.
What will make the lines move faster are solutions as implemented in places like NYC and Seattle -- where riders scan their transit cards at the bus stop, before the bus arrives.
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But what happens when people run towards the bus while the driver waits even longer?!
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I seriously do not understand peoples' annoyance at people who hold up the lines. Being annoyed will not make the lines move faster and is counterproductive to one's own mood.
What will make the lines move faster are solutions as implemented in places like NYC and Seattle -- where riders scan their transit cards at the bus stop, before the bus arrives.
What will make the lines move faster are solutions as implemented in places like NYC and Seattle -- where riders scan their transit cards at the bus stop, before the bus arrives.
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I'm not sure about that. Apple seems to prioritize color accuracy over vividness, so things might not look much different if/when they adopt that technology. The main difference will be battery life, but even then that'll depend on whether iOS continues to keep a lot of its lighter-colored UI.
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Originally Posted by davie355
What will make the lines move faster are solutions as implemented in places like NYC and Seattle -- where riders scan their transit cards at the bus stop, before the bus arrives.