Tim Cook announced a new service around the Apple Pay system. Is AppleCard, the complete redesign of the credit card as we know it. The goal of the big apple has been Eliminate the hassle of creating a credit card.
The credit card is hire from the iPhone and it can be used from the first minute it is hired. The advantages of this service must be analyzed, but as we have advanced, the options are really interesting.
Apple Pay's Next Challenge: Apple Card
This is the Apple credit card. These credit cards can be requested as long as we have an iOS device with your Apple ID. It is endorsed by the GoldmanSachs bank and Mastercard. The user interface that is included within the Wallet application is quite interesting since it allows you to have a control of the expenses we make, organized in different categories: leisure, food, work, etc. In addition, the graphs that have been shown inside the application allow you to have a visual control over spending in different views: monthly, weekly or yearly.
In addition, they have presented what is known as DailyCash, a retribution to your account depending on the place you buy from. If you buy from Apple with this card, you will be refunded the 3% of your purchase. If you do it in any establishment compatible with Apple Pay, 2%. And, if you buy with the card, the 1%.
On the other hand, they have highlighted the importance of Privacy in an area as delicate as the financial one. From Apple they assure that they cannot have access to what, how much and where the purchases are made. On the other hand, the bank that provides the cards, GoldmanSachs also will sell or use our data to profit.
Apple Card It will be available in the Wallet application in the summer of this year and, as in almost all the news about services, only in the United States. The physical card can be purchased at the time it is contracted from the app and, also, as a curiosity It does not expire, it does not have a CVV number or a card number, since everything is managed from the application of the iOS device.