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Old Aug 13, 2015, 12:02 pm
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Originally Posted by wco81
Samsung announced Samsung Pay, which uses MST to beam data to mag stripe card terminals.

So mag stripe readers are suppose to be phased out over time right?
As long as gift cards are still a thing there'll still be a slot to swipe them in (hopefully). Samsung Pay might end up using NFC more and more over time though.
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