Apple Store's New Credit Card Tech Is Its Most Reliable Yet
Because it was invented some time in the 1940s.
In the wake of what appears to be a global iTunes/App Store outage, Apple Store employees (at least those in the UK, where this picture was taken) are resorting to some severely old school methods of payment.
Yes, that is a manual, carbon copy credit card imprinter. Or for the kids out there, this thing:
The future! [The Next Web]
I haven't seen one of those since the time I hired a hooker in '02! She literally carried it in her shoulder bag, and whipped it out onto the hotel room nightstand like it was no big deal. LOL!
She "whipped it out onto the hotel room nightstand like it was no big deal"
Well dude....she is a professional.
"Deutschmarks or dollars? American Express will do nicely, thank you."
The irony... buying a crazy advanced 5k iMac or Mac Pro and paying for it with... a carbon copy credit card machine. Kind of curious how they will handle credit cards being declined...
OH LORD! I am old enough to remember those in use. I am old enough to remember the first ATM machines.
The Automatic Teller Machine machine??
I have three cards and none of them would work with this without them manually entering the numbers. It seems like cards are going away from raised characters.
That wouldn't even work with my Discover Card. There are no raised numbers they are just printed on the back.
The people (both staff and customers), behavior and overall scene in an Apple store are hilarious to me. Am I the only one who feels this way? I mean, just walking into one of these sycophant safe havens is like watching a live action Key and Peele sketch.
They used this when I went into a club in DC back in January. I stood there staring at it cause I had never seen one before. (I was also drunk and needed some time to get myself together)
Anyone else have a credit card without raised numbers? Even this device wont work. They will have to fill in the numbers by hand!
Haha so glad someone got pictures! I went to the local Apple store a year or so ago (the only one within 300 miles unless you count the Best Buy mini-store) to pick up a Mac Mini to be an App caching server for my employer and their vastly growing iPad supply. When I went to pay with the company card, they realized the computers were down .. or as Apple employees are required to say, "Not working as intended". (more can be found here http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/152187/geniu...) So they had to break out the old imprinter and carbon paper... it was like watching the monkey scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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