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in 2010: the wallet phone

Started by ybpguide · 9 months ago

file this under ‘best thing since sliced bread’, motorola and discover card have been piloting a new idea in north suburbs of Chicago that enables you to pay for everything via your cell phone. well, you may be thinking this isn’t ‘technically&%2 ... Continue reading »

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  • JC

    2 years ago

    Yezzur! It's all about reducing the number of items in one's pockets. However, "feature fatigue" is real for consumers who just want their phones to be phones. Nothing more, nothing less...
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  • Fredric

    2 years ago

    i feel you on the feature fatigue, but i'm never against having the gadget that i always carry around do EVERYTHING.

    waiting for the dap / gps / pmp / quad-band phone / pay all my bills / cure cancer device. :-)
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  • Kimberly Michelle

    2 years ago

    not a fan of one thing doing everything...
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  • rors

    2 years ago

    its called putting all your eggs in one basket, if you put everything in one and lose that one thing youve lost everything, if ya get me
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  • Fredric

    2 years ago

    maybe, but the cool thing about it being an electronic medium is that you can turn it off instantly.

    think about it this way. would you rather lose your wallet with 5 credit cards that can put $10,000 on them or a wallet with $10,000 in cash?
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