I don’t like doing that, I worry someone would see me leaving it the glovebox and break into the car.
You need a shoe wallet. Brilliant.
I don’t like phone cases as they spoil the design of the phone but that’s a whole new discussion!
I personally don’t mind the practicality of it. I’m into gadgets and gizmos and I’d use ApplePay all the time if I had a compatible phone. It wouldn’t save time in today’s world, but it sure would be fun!
It’s small steps with the mass adoption of technology. Without contactless terminals we wouldn’t have ApplePay, without ApplePay (and other smartphone NFC solutions) we wouldn’t stand a chance of having things like our drivers licences held digitally at some future point.
Not a great appeal today, but a necessary building block in future technologies.
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It’s not just credit cards that people have to carry though.
In my wallet I have a heavy vehicle endorsed drivers license, a High Risk Work (fork lift) license, a plastic First Aid card with multiple endorsements on it, a Working With Children check card and several cards for memberships of various clubs and places.
None of those would be accepted as digital versions of themselves.
I can’t realistically see wallets going away any time soon and I suspect that the whole concept is invalid and it’s going to end up like the ‘paperless office’ concept of the 90’s which was what computers were going to enable.
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Nobody’s forcing you to use it, but clearly there are people here who will find it useful in ways that you won’t.
And there’s nothing wrong with that, and no ones going to force you to use it either.
No, of course they’re not! But as I said in my post earlier it fascinates me as a) I love the tech aspect of it, but b) it solves a problem I don’t have. It particularly interests me that people are willing to go through the hell of changing banks to use applepay! Nothing wrong with that, but I don’t see it, that’s all.
I should also add that it made much more sense to me when released in the States where they still do signature card payments. Chip and Pin is coming this year I think, and I’m not sure there are contactless cards there. Welcome to the future!
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Ha ha, I have one of those supposedly. I still end up stuffing piles of irrelevant paper into the security bins etc. not to mention the people who still send their invoices in the mail and pay your invoices by cheque…
Relevant:
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I LOVE storing all my licences etc in 1Password. If I had ApplePay, I’d totally just leave my cards in the car all the time (locked in the glovebox!) and then carry a phone + keys! I basically only shop at places that take card with Tap & Go, and that includes a single coffee every morning at my local! 
Brilliant Product, shitty website, sorry!
Flash player? What year is this?
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I do hope that Apple Pay is brought out here rather soon. It seems to me to be a great implementation of NFC, but i wish apple would also implement the more traditional NFC uses as well to make it as a device so much more usable with the ecosystems of products that work with Android.
The Apple way is to launch with one feature better implemented than anywhere else, make it the gold standard for that feature, then in the next version of iOS make it more broadly accessible, bringing the cachet established in version 1.