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Old Sep 10, 2014, 11:59 am
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GoodOmens
 
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Originally Posted by kebosabi
But if Apple Pay and Apple Watch does take off combined with Apple's marketing power, I can see a wide variety of uses for this, like using to paying for transit. Would be great to get rid of my stack of transit cards from all over the world and all I need is the watch I'm wearing to ride transit anywhere from LA to Tokyo, from London to Singapore.
The WMATA in DC will be demoing contactless payment compatible with NFC starting in early January. If it's well received they will deploy it system wide:

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/c...in-january.php
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