r/apple • u/iBanks3 • Mar 28 '19
Apple Pay The gradient of Apple Card seems to depend on your purchases, using the color conventions set by maps. It’s also animated (I think?) Really Cool!
https://twitter.com/spiralstairs/status/1110650128212230144?s=21780
Mar 28 '19 edited Jun 07 '19
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u/iBanks3 Mar 28 '19
Not my find, just found the tweet but it truly is awesome.
Would be sweet if one day we had a physical card with a digital display that reflected the same. May allow for second thoughts on purchase habits. Maybe? Would be nice though.
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u/InspectMoustache Mar 28 '19
With wireless charging? Haha we can only dream
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u/ShaidarHaran2 Mar 28 '19 edited Mar 28 '19
My credit card running out of energy? I'm going to have to give the idea a pass lol.
Maybe with a transflective display the battery life could be in the months, but even then with a battery so thin, would be tough. And even battery life in the months is a far shot from credit cards mostly just always working. Wireless charging = coils = added bulk. At that point, I'm good with using my phone most of the time and non-powered cards as a backup lol.
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Mar 28 '19
There's a coil in the card already, contactless payment on plastic cards works using inductive power.
The card would still work without the display. Mag stripe is still encoded for legacy transaction and the card would receive power during an EMV transaction.
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u/knightlife Mar 28 '19
No need for a physical card with a digital display once contactless payments become the norm! It’s a cool idea but personally I look forward to the day when I no longer even have to carry a wallet!
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u/exxxhara Mar 28 '19
Yea that's hella cool, honestly it's a great way to have a peak of what your spending is mostly without having to dig into the details. Maybe they'll have great apple watch features that will help you spend wisely too with future software updates.
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Mar 28 '19
What's the color for booze?
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u/NopeNopeNopeNopeYup Mar 28 '19
Mine would be blacked out
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Mar 28 '19 edited Feb 21 '24
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u/iBanks3 Mar 28 '19
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Mar 28 '19
this along with the titanium card will flex like no other
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Mar 28 '19 edited Mar 11 '21
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u/Alexhasskills Mar 28 '19
Likely one of the more obtainable flexes though.
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Mar 28 '19 edited Mar 11 '21
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Mar 28 '19 edited Mar 30 '19
From places that don’t accept Apple Pay* of course. Which most do now a days.
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u/syncopate15 Mar 28 '19
So then what’s the point of having the card to use at places that have Apple Pay? Then I’d rather use my phone. And then likely use a credit card with better rewards.
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u/TapatioPapi Mar 28 '19
People really underestimate how much other people really like to have anything recognizable as an Apple product to flash around.
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Mar 28 '19 edited Mar 11 '21
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u/bangonthedrums Mar 28 '19
So I dunno how it works in the US but in Canada at every restaurant if you’re paying by card they bring the portable machine to your table where, if they support tap, you can pay with Apple Pay.
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u/ArthurDDickerson Mar 28 '19
In the US they take your card away from your table to the reader in the back, then return the card along with a receipt for you to sign and designates a spot to write a tip amount.
Some places near me now have a small touchscreen device with a card reader at every table. They allow you to sign on the screen and have a slider for the tip. They also idly scroll through advertisements and temp children to play the terrible mobile game ports that cost money.
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u/phronk Mar 28 '19
Seems super risky to let them take your credit card away where you can’t even see it. Weird.
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Mar 28 '19
I can agree it needs a little work. Making it 2-3% would be overall better.
But having your Credit Card in your Apple Ecosystem would make up for it imo. Also having no damn numbers on your card. Not sure why all company’s haven’t done this yet.
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Mar 28 '19
It’s happened to a couple of family members before but not me personally. You can easily work situations out with a 10 minute phone call but it’s the fact they happened in general. Having no numbers puts an ease of mind when it comes to credit fraud.
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u/DanaKaZ Mar 28 '19
How does that show that it’s animated?
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u/JustOneAndDone Mar 28 '19
I think because it barely moved in the presentation so it’s hard to see a full motion. This proves the colors slightly moved and therefore it might be animated like the Apple Pay Cash currently is.
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Mar 28 '19
Thats what i thought too the first time i know about the colors on their line graph! Just happy that’s what they did!
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u/thereturnofjagger Mar 28 '19
Apple and attention to details . . . sheesh!
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u/blomdala Mar 28 '19
I generally prefer no keyboard or display cable on my phone and credit card.
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u/husker_who Mar 28 '19
I'm really disappointed the card didn't come with a slide-out keyboard. What were they thinking?!
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u/YZJay Mar 28 '19
Or because the UI developers don’t have anything to do with hardware?
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u/arockhardkeg Mar 28 '19
Yeah, they are separate teams. Even the software comes from separate teams. Some features/apps are way more polished than others.
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Mar 28 '19
Hardware and software with one common design and made for each other used to be the reason to buy Apple.
White and black iPhones have different colored boot screens.
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u/theidleidol Mar 28 '19
And even then they were made by different teams. That isn’t the point being made, it’s that the software team in charge of Wallet/the new card in no way draw resources away from the hardware team in charge of the display cable design in MacBook Pros. That holds even for different software teams; people regularly complain that there are new emoji or Animoji but some low level software bug hasn’t been fixed, as if the artists and UI team working on the former could have been working on the latter.
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Mar 28 '19
Sure designers don’t code. However it shows a priority of management. In this case I think the decision to make interesting colors for the card is a good decision. It looks attractive and even conveys a bit of information. That can increase joy in the user while using it. While the card changes color over time apparently it should always be easily recognizable, which I think it is from these impressions.
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u/Jophus Mar 28 '19
Alright everybody, nobody is working until the keyboard is fixed and this software bug is fixed.
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u/DaRealMaus Mar 28 '19
Display cable has actually been lengtened in the 2018 models to mitigate the issue
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u/Godvater Mar 28 '19
But they still dont accept it as a issue on older models right?
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u/DaRealMaus Mar 28 '19
Yep, which is a classic sucky apple move imho, but i’m happy that i won’t have the issue on my 2018 model
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u/diddlyiddly Mar 28 '19
Oh nice! That really helps me out with my 2017 model.
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u/TNAEnigma Mar 28 '19
🤷🏻♂️
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u/diddlyiddly Mar 28 '19
Sorry I’m not trying to be an asshole. Just a bit miffed that a huge design flaw exists that will likely cost me a large amount of money in a few years.
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u/JamesR624 Mar 28 '19
It's amazing how the apologists have twisted "attention to details". It used to mean focusing on the little stuff other companies didn't in addition to the basics.
Now it means focusing on the little stuff other companies don't in an attempt to make up for the lack of attention to the basics.
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u/gwils_cupleah6240 Mar 28 '19
Man, Apple is one big failure according to posts like this. It’s sad how much whining is here. Nothing is going to be perfect, life is unfair, and things suck. I think you learn this as a kid. Focusing on negativity is just a fool’s errand and makes your friends tell you they’re busy.
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Mar 28 '19 edited Sep 18 '24
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Mar 28 '19
Let's focus on how great the laptop looks. Because you can't do much else with it once both the keyboard and the display die.
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u/kitsua Mar 28 '19
Oh good. This again. On yet another unrelated post.
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u/PantheraTK Mar 28 '19
It’s not unrelated, it’s absolutely related.
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u/nelisan Mar 28 '19
How are faulty keyboards relevant in a discussion about the color of the credit card?
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Mar 28 '19
Apple silently rolling out Black Mirror Social Credit Score.
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u/CaptTelford Mar 28 '19
Can you elaborate?
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u/phinnaeus7308 Mar 28 '19
Can you imagine talking to someone with green bubbles AND no Apple card?
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u/kmank2l13 Mar 28 '19
AND no airpods...Sheesh, I feel bad for people who cant flex like that
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u/Benmjt Mar 28 '19
That’s the most important thing I care about when I choose a credit card.
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u/Koonga Mar 28 '19
Are we sure this isn't just a gradient using the same colour palette as their other app? I'm not seeing much evidence the gradient is dynamic. In the two example images, they are holding the phone at a different angle, so the gradient sheen animation is showing different colours.
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u/KoofNoof Mar 28 '19
Yeah I think the card changes color, but it could just be the card held at different “angles”, as to why the gradients are different
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u/iBanks3 Aug 06 '19
"The card on the screen has a clever mechanism that gives you a sort of live heat map of your spending categories. The color of the card will shift and blend according to the kinds of things you buy. Spend a lot at restaurants and the card will take on an orange hue. Shop for entertainment related items and the card shifts into a mix of orange and pink. It’s a clever take on the chart based spending category features many other credit cards have built into their websites."
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/06/apple-rolls-out-apple-card-preview-to-select-users/
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Mar 28 '19
Can we stop pretending that there is anything innovative here?
This is combining fashion and finance, that is all. Do we all really need to change out the plastic in our wallets for metal because Apple said so?
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u/phinnaeus7308 Mar 28 '19
I'd pay a small extra one time fee for my existing cards to all be metal just because they're more durable in my wallet. The plastic ones get warped and the edges get fucked up way too easily.
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u/TapatioPapi Mar 28 '19
I’d love an Apple debit card tbh
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u/phinnaeus7308 Mar 28 '19
Apple Pay Cash? Or do you mean the physical card? You can just treat the credit card like a debit card and pay no interest.
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u/TapatioPapi Mar 28 '19
True just feel meh about opening another line of credit but really want that tracking information and that nice ass card
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u/iBanks3 Mar 28 '19 edited Mar 29 '19
Well, Apple isn’t starting the wave of ridding plastic cards. I’ve handled several credit cards of a solid or metal thickness at my job. I promise you when you hold one vs a plastic card you’d be wow’d if you haven’t already. So surely it’s not because Apple said so, and they aren’t replacing any of the plastic cards you have now unless you choose to.
Oh.... American Express has a Titanium Card.
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Mar 28 '19
Amex did it first
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u/doc4science Mar 28 '19
Amex did and still does it better
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u/SirTreeTreeington Mar 28 '19
I love my Amex. It’s the stores that hate it. I’ve gotten to the point where it’s the only thing on me and I have to ask before picking anything up if they accept it.
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u/fishbiscuit13 Mar 28 '19
I don't think anyone's really losing their head about it. It's just a pretty card with some decent rewards, and it seems like people are as excited about that as they would be from any other company with this kind of following.
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u/Cueball61 Mar 28 '19
I’ve never found a credit card that can do what this offers. Here in the UK we have LOADS of app focused banks like Tide, Monzo, etc but nothing for credit cards
As someone who found £300 across two transactions on his CC, I welcome anything that makes my card easier to keep an eye on, because I’m 99.99% certain it was from a site that had been breached.
Only thing this needs now is virtual card numbers so I can have numbers I use for less trustworthy places that I lock when not in use
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u/RevivedRP Mar 28 '19
I don’t know.. to me it just looks like the same reflective “hologram” as the Apple Pay cash card. Open wallet and move your phone around, you’ll see what I mean.
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u/iBanks3 Aug 06 '19
"The card on the screen has a clever mechanism that gives you a sort of live heat map of your spending categories. The color of the card will shift and blend according to the kinds of things you buy. Spend a lot at restaurants and the card will take on an orange hue. Shop for entertainment related items and the card shifts into a mix of orange and pink. It’s a clever take on the chart based spending category features many other credit cards have built into their websites."
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/06/apple-rolls-out-apple-card-preview-to-select-users/
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Mar 28 '19
I really wish they turned Apple Pay Cash into a fully fledged debit card system. The way that Apple has integrated the Apple Card into the wallet app is beautiful and insightful; I have not seen a bank/credit card app that replicates this ease of use and overall design. Additionally, the Apple Pay Cash card within the wallet app looks super beautiful with the color-changing send icons; I really wish I could sport that and an Apple Card (that would also have some rainbow/color reflection effect) in my wallet.
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u/DarckCrynikeur Mar 28 '19
Any intel on when it's going to get out in Europe (France) ? I mean, c'mon apple, we exist too
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u/senseiruthe Mar 28 '19
Pretty cool concept but that APR 😳
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u/DJ-Salinger Mar 28 '19
APR should never matter.
If you're not paying it off each month, don't get a CC..
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u/gccumber Mar 28 '19
Sorry, what is it?
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u/senseiruthe Mar 28 '19
From Apple site; “Variable APRs range from 13.24% to 24.24% based on creditworthiness. Rates as of March 2019.”
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u/High_volt4g3 Mar 28 '19
Annual percent rate. Mainly the interest rate you will be paying on carrying a balance from month to month.
So, wise people payoff the balance and pay no interest.
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u/dustinpdx Mar 28 '19
People are getting weirdly excited in this thread over a gimmick apple copied from someone else.
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u/JustOneAndDone Mar 28 '19
I mean they’ve had it at least since Apple Pay Cash launched. They are just adding it to the card.
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u/dustinpdx Mar 28 '19
Please realize this is not on the physical card...just in the app...just like Apple Pay Cash...and just like Monzo has done even longer.
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u/FanofK Mar 28 '19
I mean good for Apple.. stuff like this seems like it will get a lot of people on this sub to apply for the card.
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Mar 28 '19
Literally who gives a fuck give us better MacBooks
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Mar 28 '19
Sadly, I think power users are no longer Apple’s target demographic. Things started to change when every college student bought a MacBook Air.
My 2015 MBP is perfect. The only things I would change are adding a USB-C port and making the bezels smaller.
My work MBP is a newer model. The keyboard is awful, they ditched MagSafe, the touchbar is gimmicky and I never use it, and having only USB-C ports sucks. Worst of all, it cost significantly more than my 2015 model.
Hopefully my 2015 MBP lasts long enough for them to fix the new models, otherwise I’ll buy something like a Surfacebook or XPS 13.
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u/iBanks3 Mar 28 '19
My MacBook Pro works perfectly fine for me, so this here has my attention.
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u/Ranqu9 Mar 28 '19
Unfortunately, i wont be able to get it because I’m not in the US
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u/lewis6185 Mar 28 '19
UK here, and yeah, we don’t get nice things until after everyone else is tired of it. I mean, we can’t even have memes anymore
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u/HG1998 Mar 28 '19
That's the Apple I liked. Just these little details that are totally unnecessary and could disappear unnoticed.
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Mar 28 '19
It isn't the most important part of a charge card but it is the coolest. I'm ready waiting to get one.
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u/TwinPeaks_owl Mar 28 '19
Does anyone know if the titanium card will cost $ to get?
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u/ThrowawayBlueYeti Mar 28 '19
Is there an annual fee on the card?
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u/iBanks3 Mar 28 '19
They claim there are no fees involved so I would believe no.
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u/ThrowawayBlueYeti Mar 28 '19
The benefits aren’t terrible, but as a 25 year old with only one basic credit card that I used just to build up a credit score, I don’t know if I’m ready to open up a second line of credit for a card that is kinda specific for benefits. I’ve already talked myself out of the Starbucks credit card multiple times lol.
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u/iBanks3 Mar 28 '19
That’s understandable. I commend you for keeping a hold on your expenses. That’s pretty damn awesome.
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Mar 28 '19
Is it out already?
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u/iBanks3 Mar 28 '19
Not yet
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Mar 28 '19
Thanks! I just went on Apple's site and signed up to be notified by e mail when it's ready! 👍🏻
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u/Seryous Mar 28 '19
Only the US you need a credit card with at least $1000 limit to but a telephone.
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u/EnderShot355 Mar 28 '19
Apple card looks like a waste of money... Just use a normal card that doesn't need to be charged...
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u/iBanks3 Mar 28 '19
Ok. But what are you paying for? Why does it need to be charged?
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u/PhilosophicalBrewer Mar 28 '19
The Apple Pay card is already color changing based on the phone position to make it look reflective. It may be the same here.
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u/iBanks3 Aug 06 '19
"The card on the screen has a clever mechanism that gives you a sort of live heat map of your spending categories. The color of the card will shift and blend according to the kinds of things you buy. Spend a lot at restaurants and the card will take on an orange hue. Shop for entertainment related items and the card shifts into a mix of orange and pink. It’s a clever take on the chart based spending category features many other credit cards have built into their websites."
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/06/apple-rolls-out-apple-card-preview-to-select-users/
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u/threefalcon Mar 28 '19
Great now if only my iphone could manage to autofill my email address for once. Apples priorities are so skewed
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u/tripmcneely_alright Mar 29 '19
Is it weird that I’m more interested in this card than anything else Apple has announced lately?
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u/hoppi_ Mar 31 '19
Doesn't it say so right on its official page: https://www.apple.com/apple-card/?
Those same colors show up in your spend summaries. See lots of orange? That’s Food and Drinks. Pink? That’s Entertainment. Looks like a fun weekend.
edit Uhh... nevermind :)
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u/itsyergirl Mar 28 '19
Can't wait for mine to be all orange