I’ve got into the habit of kinda smearing my contactless card on the machine. I think it’s because I’m kinda eager and slap the thing down before the machine is ready, and it seems to not recognise the card as easily when you do that, hence the _smear _.
My Oyster card is unregistered and not linked to a card or an account. Not planning on using a contactless card for TfL stuff. Mostly cos I don’t use it often enough for there to be any benefit.
Haven’t used Android pay yet. Google haven’t yet got my bank details (and won’t be getting then any time soon). It’s a futile resistance. Not particularly a trust/security thing. I just resent Google’s pervasiveness. (Actually, it is partially a trust/security thing - I don’t, in general, trust Android apps to not rinse me, so the badgering from Google Play about adding payment details always gets a ‘skip this’ response.)
I write like the tech and convenience of phone payments, though. Is there (or is there likely to be) any alternative to Apple/Google? I’d prefer to keep payments as a thing that’s between me and my bank rather than introducing bloody Google into the equation.
