{"id":308,"date":"2016-07-30T01:05:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T06:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2016-07-30T01:05:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T06:05:24","slug":"not-quite-how-apple-pay-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/30\/not-quite-how-apple-pay-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Not quite how Apple Pay works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3066811\/retail-it\/kohls-apple-pay-deal-illustrates-why-mobile-wallet-is-a-lot-harder-than-it-looks.html\">Kohl&#8217;s Apple Pay deal illustrates why mobile wallet is a lot harder than it looks<\/a> earlier, and some red flags immediately went up. The main issue seems to be the writer&#8217;s misunderstanding of how to use Apple Pay. It&#8217;s not true that you need to open the Wallet app; simply double-tap the home button (the one with the Touch ID sensor), select the card to use if you don&#8217;t want to use the default, then use Touch ID to authenticate and put your phone near the reader\/terminal.<\/p>\n<p>There are definitely good points in this article, and the EMV rules have taken some of the shine off of this experience. Even so, it&#8217;s a lot easier and faster than checking out at Target with their own store card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading Kohl&#8217;s Apple Pay deal illustrates why mobile wallet is a lot harder than it looks earlier, and some red flags immediately went up. The main issue seems to be the writer&#8217;s misunderstanding of how to use Apple Pay. It&#8217;s not true that you need to open the Wallet app; simply double-tap the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,51,52,53,50],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekstuff","tag-apple-pay","tag-emv","tag-nfc","tag-payments","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FA-4Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}