Mac OS Ken: 10.28.2014

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2014

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Apple Paints Rosy Picture for Apple Pay as CVS Continues to Diss Tim Cook: One Million Cards on Apple Pay in First 72-Hours Wells Fargo Offering Up to 20-Dollars Credit for Trying Apple Pay Verifone Pushes NFC Terminal Upgrades in Europe Ahead of Apple Pay Euro Carriers Stiff-Arm Apple SIM Cult of Mac: India Sells 55,000 New iPhones in Three-Days New iPhones Put a Hurt on Samsung Galaxy Phones in South Korea Apple Outlines Its ConnectED Involvement Alpine Hits the Road with CarPlay FitBit Makes Surge Super Watch Official lynda.com: Learn Apple software, plus business and creative skills, from easy-to-follow video tutorials at

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKinn.
0:10.0	Dispatches from the Apple Bay Lines, Eurocarriers, Stiffarm Apple Sim, and iPhone
0:18.9	news from other lands.
0:21.4	It's Tuesday, October 28th, 2014.
0:24.0	I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from MacoS Ken.
0:28.0	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by I-Chart magazine.
0:32.0	Putting Apple and Tech News in focus
0:35.0	EY E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
0:38.0	Chart magazine available for iOS newsstand now.
0:41.0	If CVS and Rite Aid thought that inconvenience newsstand now.
0:42.6	If CVS and Rite Aid thought that inconveniencing consumers was going to go unnoticed and
0:47.3	unaddressed, the two companies learned differently on Monday.
0:51.5	You'd likely remember the story.
0:53.0	Over the weekend, both pharmacy chains disabled their NFC point of sales terminals.
0:58.0	While neither company said why, it was assumed by many, if not most, that the goal was to slow the adoption of Apple Pay as CVS, Rite Aid,
1:06.7	and host of other retailers operating under the Merchant Consumer Exchange Banner prep their
1:11.6	own electronic payment system dubbed Current C.
1:16.0	That's expected to launch sometime in 2015.
1:20.0	CVS hasn't said that killing NFC terminals is tied directly to currency.
1:24.6	Business insider did have the pharmacy issuing a statement on Monday via CNBC saying,
1:30.1	at this time, cVS pharmacy cannot accept Apple Pay or other mobile payments that use
1:34.8	NFC technology. We are in the process of evaluating mobile payment options for our customers.
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