- From: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:30:35 +0100
- To: Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@ulsberg.no>, Arie Yehuda Levy Cohen <arielevycohen@gmail.com>
- Cc: Web Payments CG <public-webpayments@w3.org>
On 2015-10-27 15:09, Asbjørn Ulsberg wrote: > 2015-10-27 13:28 GMT+01:00 Arie Yehuda Levy Cohen <arielevycohen@gmail.com>: > >> http://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=28044 >> >> [...] >> >> "Chase Pay is eschewing NFC technology for instore payments in favour >> of a QR code-based system, which the bank says makes it easier and >> cheaper for merchants to roll out. > > QR codes. Well. I think this says it all, really: > > http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/ :-) Maybe they have read this article? http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/banks-should-stop-dreaming-about-blockchains-start-looking-alibaba-1523647 Alibaba uses QR-code with great success. However, banks are anything but mini-Alibabas and the US and EU financial industries are very different to China's. OTOH, Alibaba is not Google or Apple either so they are quite limited by available technology. It is a pretty interesting power-game out there. Anders
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