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My wallet is pretty small. I don’t carry business cards because you can get my contact information from my LinkedIn profile, Facebook page, website or email signature. I don’t carry money because I have one rewards credit card that I use for everything. If you don’t take credit cards, then I’ll go to the store around the corner that does. I don’t carry receipts because I scan them into Evernote and have them synced with my phone. I don’t carry pictures because I put those in Dropbox and can see them on my phone any time I want without the risk of losing them. I don’t carry health insurance cards, dental insurance cards, business cards from my doctor’s office, or membership cards from AAA or elsewhere, because I put all of that information into my contacts on my phone and leave the cards at home. I don’t carry a library card because the library staff can pull up my information based on my driver’s license. So I am left with my driver’s license and a credit card. It seems that if Verizon and AT&T have their way, I soon will be down to just my driver’s license.
According to several sources, Verizon and AT&T are working on a partnership to develop contactless payments from your cell phone. The financial website The Motley Fool has more information on the deal. It seems there is no word yet on when this might be rolled out, or how they are going to fill my mailbox with pre-approved cell phone / credit card offers.
So what do you think? Would you use a system like this? Would you trust it?
Looming Threat for Visa, MasterCard from AT&T, Verizon [The Motley Fool]
Kosmo @ The Soap Boxers says:
No thank you. I have enough trouble resolving billing errors with phone companies. I certainly have no interest in having them in the midst of a credit card payment dispute. Especially Verizon.
Usage of Evernote must be a requirement to be a writer on 40Tech :)
August 5, 2010 — 9:18 am
Evan Kline says:
I hear you. I’m sure many people feel the same way about phone companies. I’ll be curious to see how many people put convenience ahead of those concerns.
Regarding Evernote, yep, we screen for that. Seriously, though, you KNOW you want to try it . . . Actually, maybe you have, and decided it wasn’t for you. I’d say- give it another look. It took me a couple of false starts to “get it.” Now, I can’t live without it. It really is my external brain- anything I think I might need, or need to remember, I just dump into Evernote. Web clippings, bills, lists, etc. Having an Evernote email address to receive notes makes it easy to get things into it, from any platform. Takes the load off my brain.
August 5, 2010 — 10:17 am
Josh says:
That’s a good point, I haven’t had problems with Verizon billing, but my credit card company is super easy to deal with.
Ironically a post I have been working on this week is on Evernote’s shortcomings (hopefully Evan and Bobby will not burn me at the stake).
August 5, 2010 — 10:15 am
Wired says:
Ill second the point which Kosmo made, even my cellular company is all that efficent and if credit card services is added to it, i dont know how big a mess it could make.
Secondly i have my doubts with the security of the data transmited and the credit card theft which could be made easily.
August 8, 2010 — 10:56 am