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Apple Debuts Apple Card To Transform the Credit Card Experience (venturebeat.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: iPhone users are already using Apple's Wallet app, Apple Pay, and Apple Pay Cash -- wouldn't they like an Apple credit card, too? The Cupertino company and bank partner Goldman Sachs believe the answer is "yes," so they've teamed up for Apple Card. In addition to offering major rewards for users, the new payment solution promises to improve the credit card experience by offering a healthier approach to spending. The Wallet app will include a more transparent list of transactions, organized in an easy to read format, plus a more flexible way of making payments on outstanding balances.

Apple Card is designed to complement existing Apple-branded payment options, as well as displacing other credit cards that might be in a user's wallet. Though the end goal is to increase Apple's share of the dollars spent by its users, the pinch this time will be felt by rival payment providers, and come with incentives for new card users. Every time you spend with Apple Card, you get 2 percent cash back -- a feature the company calls Daily Cash. Purchases directly from Apple come with 3 percent cash back.

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  1. Re:Experience ? by cayenne8 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only credit card experience is to get the user in debt, pay XX% interest...

    Funny, you know, I"ve found it entirely possible to pay my monthly credit card bills in full, and never have to pay a cent in interest fees.

    I also have some protection on the purchases, and I often get cash back, etc on my purchases which help with the costs of things.

    You've never heard of this "personal responsibility' things and "self-control' nor budgeting?

    Did your family and even schools teach you nothing about money management?

    Earning a dollar is hard, you need to be careful in how you save and spend them.

    However, it isn't rocket surgery.

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