Google Pay is awesome

[Mike Dee]

For my iPhone w/ Apple Watch it is super convenient (someone w/ Google Play on their watch would have similar results). I simply just order then double click the button on my wrist, tap, and done. No wallet, dig card, swipe or plug in, wait, etc.

Love it when going to Firehouse subs .

Yeah, I have on my watch. I use the watch or the phone if its in my hand when practical. I forget to use it sometimes because not all places accept payment yet or some only accept Apple Pay. It will get better.
Funny story but I went to Aubon Paine once and the guy that normally prepares food was working the register for the first time and he had no idea I could pay with my phone.

 

[djisia87]

Works in Costco for me too plus CVS, Aldi, QT...

well it doesn't work in Costco so that's annoying

 

[Mike Dee]

Works in Costco for me too plus CVS, Aldi, QT...

Could be your Costco has updated terminals

 

[cardboard60]

Can't get my phone to go in the little slot at the pump to Pay for gas
Think I will just use by my Visa card.

 

[Almeuit]

Can't get my phone to go in the little slot at the pump to Pay for gas
Think I will just use by my Visa card.

Because you are doing it wrong. You put the phone near the wireless payment spot (not the card reader) and it would work.

I get you don't like it (Google Pay) but if you are going to attempt to troll the thread at least do it with some kind of knowledge of how it works otherwise it is just a really bad attempt .

 

[Mike Dee]

Can't get my phone to go in the little slot at the pump to Pay for gas
Think I will just use by my Visa card.

I assume this was an attempt at humour

 

[cardboard60]

I assume this was an attempt at humour

Yes Sir

 

[Mike Dee]

Yes Sir

I had to ask because I've seen people fold a 5 1/4 floppyy in half to try and get it into a 3 1/2 drive

 

[TraderGary]

I had to ask because I've seen people fold a 5 1/4 floppyy in half to try and get it into a 3 1/2 drive

You realize that there will be a sizable number of younger people who will have no idea what you're talking about!

 

[Mike Dee]

You realize that there will be a sizable number of younger people who will have no idea what you're talking about!

Nahh....I have faith in Nerds and Gerks

 

[Robisan]

I had to ask because I've seen people fold a 5 1/4 floppyy in half to try and get it into a 3 1/2 drive

That sounds lake a painful and wrong way of compensating for being somewhat short and floppy.

 

[I Can Be Your Hero]

One thing about using Google Pay which is not so nice, is having to unlock the phone first.

Apple did it correctly with ApplePay. With an iPhone, you don't have to unlock the phone first, the phone will automatically wake up when it detects the NFC and then you either use TouchID or FaceID to authenticate who you are and then it works.

GP does the reverse. You have to unlock the phone first and then put it near the NFC payment device.

Yeah I agree, it's backwards. Would prefer to tap then it pulls up authentication to pay. The phone should detect that a payment wants to come through, then pull up the pay screen then you decide you want to go ahead with it.

Pixel is the other way around where you're authorising a payment (simply by unlocking the phone) even before the transaction has started. You're pretty much saying 'yes' to anything the phone touches rather than how it should be with the payment screen asking if you want to authorise a payment, and you having to confirm it.

 

[cardboard60]

I'd really hate to think I need to go back to Apple after I left that operating system like 7 yrs ago.
Really don't like IOS.
Don't care what Apple has.
Look what all Android has given us since the 16 gb phones.

 

[Robisan]

Yeah I agree, it's backwards. Would prefer to tap then it pulls up authentication to pay. The phone should detect that a payment wants to come through, then pull up the pay screen then you decide you want to go ahead with it.

Pixel is the other way around where you're authorising a payment (simply by unlocking the phone) even before the transaction has started. You're pretty much saying 'yes' to anything the phone touches rather than how it should be with the payment screen asking if you want to authorise a payment, and you having to confirm it.

+1 Relatedly, a comprehensive authentication by app request could allow less secure versions of face ID unlock, while reserving fingerprint as a second step authentication for banking/security apps. A frustration of the OnePlus face ID is it's so fast it unlocks before your fingerprint registers, so if that happens when using Google Pay you literally have to lock the phone and start over. Much simpler if the GP app automatically required proper ID when used regardless of the unlock state of the phone.

 

[cardboard60]

I refuse to use face unlock.
Want my phone as secure as it can be.
I even refuse to use Samsung or Google pay
Perfer to use my credit card .
Hate to have my phone stolen and all somebody had to do is put it on a NFC device and pay for something.
Still think you should put it on a NFC device, then have to put numbers in so it verifys it isn't stolen, or hadn't been hacked.

 

[Almeuit]

I refuse to use face unlock.
Want my phone as secure as it can be.
I even refuse to use Samsung or Google pay
Perfer to use my credit card .
Hate to have my phone stolen and all somebody had to do is put it on a NFC device and pay for something.
Still think you should put it on a NFC device, then have to put numbers in so it verifys it isn't stolen, or hadn't been hacked.

They couldn't do that... You have to have a fingerprint / PIN setup for NFC payments. So if your phone is stolen they have to unlock it to get a NFC payment to go through. So again .. that couldn't happen.

 

[cardboard60]

They couldn't do that... You have to have a fingerprint / PIN setup for NFC payments. So if your phone is stolen they have to unlock it to get a NFC payment to go through. So again .. that couldn't happen.

Thank You for the information.
I was a Locksmith and safe man for 42 yrs.
Seen how much stuff is stolen from customers and business.

There can't be enough security for me.

Want to make it as hard as I can on somebody to steal my identity.

 

[Almeuit]

Thank You for the information.
I was a Locksmith and safe man for 42 yrs.
Seen how much stuff is stolen from customers and business.

There can't be enough security for me.

Want to make it as hard as I can on somebody to steal my identity.

And that is fine if you feel that way. I simply don't want misinformation spread that someone can just "tap a NFC reader" and take payments from a stolen phone. That isn't true -- Google wouldn't allow that and banks wouldn't authorize cards to be used on mobile platforms without ensuring security is there.

 

[cardboard60]

Don't remember if this is what made my reply or not.
Hard to go backwards from this post.

Depends what part of the world you're in, here in the UK you don't need to unlock the phone for any transaction <£30.

Thanks for straighten it out for me.

 

[anon(10092459)]

One thing about using Google Pay which is not so nice, is having to unlock the phone first.

Apple did it correctly with ApplePay. With an iPhone, you don't have to unlock the phone first, the phone will automatically wake up when it detects the NFC and then you either use TouchID or FaceID to authenticate who you are and then it works.

GP does the reverse. You have to unlock the phone first and then put it near the NFC payment device.

I see it the other way .. If you gotta unlock the phone regardless, better to unlock it before you need it, than wait until the sensor recognizes the signal, then go to unlock it. Seems like Apple's way would be slower with the phone. Maybe better with the watch ..