The answer is officially no. All the new-issue credit cards now no longer have the raised lettering that can be used by imprinters. They now print the credit card information on the back of the card and now use (mostly) EMV chip reading or tap-to-pay RFID to read the card information on the retailer's point of sale (POS) terminal.
There are still a couple major retailers that don’t accept contactless payments. Hobby Lonby, Winco, and Graybars all don’t accept it. All of these have hundreds of stores.
My brain is having a hard time processing.
FWIW, I've been places where if you say "do you support NFC payments", they'll look at you all confused, but if you say, "do you support Apple Pay", they'll understand immediately. Lately, though, everywhere I've been, except for Home Depot, supports Apple Pay / NFC. I hardly ever take outt my wallet these days.
Florida is not part of the US. We disowned those people about a generation ago.
Apple people focus on themselves. Google Pay and Samsung Pay are also supported.
It also includes Google Pay and Samsung Pay. Apple Pay is not everyone, LOL.
Right, Apple Pay came after Google Pay and Samsung Pay. Apple just copies all technologies, claim they made it better and/or easier to use. No they didn't. Just stop. Give credit where it's due.
For the record, the technology behind it (NFC) was introduced on Android first, in late 2011 or so. Selected Android phones technically had NFC payment capabilities under the "Google Wallet" branding before Apple introduced Apple Pay -- but there were very few retailers (particularly in the US) who supported the technology at that time. Then Apple entered the fray in 2014, which (due to Apple's strong market influence) officially brought a large number of retailers onboard very quickly. Some other retailers had no idea what the heck was going on when their terminals started happily accepting NFC payments, due to the hardware they had just installed... which led to the whole thing with CurrentC and certain retailers shutting off NFC. In the meantime, Google Wallet had been rebranded to Android Pay and then was again rebranded to Google Pay at about the same time that Samsung Pay entered the market, which was about 2015.
The trialing of the technology on a non-smartphone does indeed represent an interesting early iteration -- but in the context of this particular discussion (which predominantly revolves around Android and iOS) I would suggest that the relevance is... somewhat questionable. I mean, if you really wanted to harken back to the earliest instance of NFC, why not reference the Panasonic P506iC, from 2004, which was noted in the Nokia page you linked? But again, that would lack much relevance.
But... aren't all these electronics companies doing just mirroring what a standalone card with the sideways wifi symbol, 'Tap to Pay' symbol does? NFC appeared on cards first before any electronic device. The terminal itself doesn't factor in whether it is a card, watch, or phone, just that a universally accepted NFC signal tied to a bank card can be accepted for payment.
While you may be correct about standalone cards, I don't think that appreciably affects this discussion. Some sources suggest that the technology can be traced back to as early as WWII in 1945... but I still argue that those previous implementations lack any meaningful relevance to the specific topic at hand.
I can certainly understand your tongue-in-cheek skepticism... but as strange as it seems, I actually do have a reference for that quip. My only point in mentioning it in the first place was to illustrate that "earliest instance" isn't necessarily the most important nor the most useful metric.
Like frequency hopping, which was developed for military comms in WWII but didn't go mainstream until 3G and Wi-Fi.
I'm guessing you didn't read very carefully. Or maybe you're just in too much of a rush to show your knowledge. Try again.
