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Okay, maybe not the whole banking industry, just a titanium credit card and super unique service. The Goldman Sachs/Mastercard partnership could be/should be another hammer thrown at the way folks treat your personal finances. You can get a physical card that weirdly has no credit card number on it or the CVV (card verification value) and expiration date folks ask for when you buy online and it doesn’t need a signature. Yes, there’s a catch. Isn’t there always? All that stuff is stored in your Apple Wallet, so it doesn’t really work with “the other guys” phone; but with an estimated 1B iPhones floating around, that’s a pretty big target market. Sign up on your phone, get approved in minutes, no fees, low interest rates, better rewards (Daily Cash). Every purchase requires your device number, a one-time dynamic security code and automatically verifies with your Apple face ID or touch ID. In true Apple fashion, no one – Goldman Sachs, MasterCard, Apple – will be able to use your activity to sell to third-party marketers or advertisers. Info lives on your device and doesn’t even get sent to Apple servers. It’s nearly impossible for someone to make a fraudulent purchase. Sure wish we’d had that a few months ago when our cards were lifted with my wallet. Cancelling all of them is such a *(#%$% ! Ultra privacy, darn good security, titanium card (impress your friends) and tap/pay. Heckofa’ good reasons to switch phones! A few folks who teach business instead of doing business viewed the move and other Monday announcements as another Cook misstep like the Apple Watch. They probably haven’t noticed that Apple is big in the healthcare field – Apple Watch, iPhone, apps and FIHR (fast healthcare interoperability resources). More than 120 big/small name healthcare institutions are part of their beta records program and the results are richly promising. Ultimately bad, good, great devices are all about what you can do with them. When it comes to Apple devices, they use them, view/listen with them, buy with them … a lot. Yes, there are more devices out there capable of using Google Play apps (about 80 percent of smartphones