As a mobile app developer I promise that you want to have push notifications that are capable of doing meaningful work on your phone. Apps are often entirely dead but a push notification from a central server will still get you X/Y/Z functionality.

Companies abuse this to then track you, and harvest endless amounts of information but the alternative is your phone no longer notified you of anything and the majority of background functionality for your apps dies entirely.

What I wish would happen is that mobile OSes have another set of location/network permissions for push notifications.

If you wanna use a physical metro card that you have to refill with cash every X rides be my guest.

Horrid experience, I’ll keep my tap thanks

You can pay normally and then submit reimbursement. Which sucks majorly.

NYC only recently added tap to pay and it’s a godsend.

Yeah this isn’t a bank it’s a pre-tax commuter card offered through some work service.

The website is awful and sketchy looking but officially endorsed by Large Company and I get my $100 pretax dollars, so I don’t complain.

It’s a virtual card, they don’t offer a physical tap card.

You call people?

Like, on the phone?

Weirdo

Hard to say. Privacy of mind seems most important. The rest… Seems immaterial?

The minds control all, after all.

Ok Chairmaker but we can’t all be on Sma’s bankroll.

It’s always funny to me when people wave away tap to pay like losing it is nothing.

It’s my number 1 practical use case for my phone. My commuter card is stored there for example. I use it as often as I take photos at this point: I might take a dozen photos on the weekend but I commute every day.

Because they don’t need the money.

Until investors start throwing a fit when number doesn’t go up every year for all eternity.

Make no mistake: your data is just as sellable by Apple as anyone else.