Titanium Apple Credit Card reportedly very sensitive | Say goodbye to Jeans and Leather wallets

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, will4623 said:

bold of you to assume mine won't.

Hey why not get some leather, get your GPU folding and run a case study? That way you can participate AND help to validate my statement at the same time! Win-Win

[Zando_]

Just now, GOTSpectrum said:

Hey why not get some leather, get your GPU folding and run a case study? That way you can participate AND help to validate my statement at the same time! Win-Win

I've seen a man cook hotdogs in foil between two GPUs in crossfire, so it's a fact that GPUs running folding loads can be useful for other stuff like baking as well, depending on the model. 

[The King of the Undead]

1 minute ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Hey why not get some leather, get your GPU folding and run a case study? That way you can participate AND help to validate my statement at the same time! Win-Win

because I don't want my mom and dad to have to soke up that power cost. also I only have a 5770 and phenom 2 x4

[GOTSpectrum]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

I've seen a man cook hotdogs in foil between two GPUs in crossfire, so it's a fact that GPUs running folding loads can be useful for other stuff like baking as well, depending on the model. 

Hey if you wanna do some cooking just grab yourself a couple Vega 64s, mod the LC bios into them and crank the power slider ALL THE WAY up. 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

I've seen a man cook hotdogs in foil between two GPUs in crossfire, so it's a fact that GPUs running folding loads can be useful for other stuff like baking as well, depending on the model. 

It's true. The rear wall of my server rack can be used as a skillet.

[Zando_]

2 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Hey if you wanna do some cooking just grab yourself a couple Vega 64s, mod the LC bios into them and crank the power slider ALL THE WAY up. 

I used to have a Vega FE, sadly I traded that away 

 

[GOTSpectrum]

2 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

I used to have a Vega FE, sadly I traded that away 

 

I used to too... One of the fets shit the bed

[PlayStation 2]

Question: has anyone here ever had a debit card, a credit card or even a gift card in a leather wallet for extended periods of time and used it often? No? Then lemme tell ya, they wear out. Quickly. This isn’t exclusive to the Apple Card at all. It happens to basically any card that comes in and out of a wallet. My shitty work card is already worn to fuck and it’s 8 months old.

[Zando_]

7 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Question: has anyone here ever had a debit card, a credit card or even a gift card in a leather wallet for extended periods of time and used it often? No? Then lemme tell ya, they wear out. Quickly. This isn’t exclusive to the Apple Card at all. It happens to basically any card that comes in and out of a wallet. My shitty work card is already worn to fuck and it’s 8 months old.

BuT BrO iT's aPpLe aNd tHeY'Re BaD bEcAuSe uH aPpLe BaD

[S w a t s o n]

Wait, you guys put your credit cards in leather wallets or your pockets? HEATHENS! You just dont appreciate apple's forward thinking designs

[Zando_]

3 minutes ago, S w a t s o n said:

Wait, you guys put your credit cards in leather wallets or your pockets? HEATHENS! You just dont appreciate apple's forward thinking designs

So do you just stick it to your forehead with double sided tape as a profession of your devotion to Apple? 

[S w a t s o n]

7 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

So do you just stick it to your forehead with double sided tape as a profession of your devotion to Apple? 

No no, Apple will offer a $599 titanium card holder that also cant go in pockets or wallets, you keep the card holder magnetically attached to the back of your iphone for ease of access of course.

 

Apple magnets are magic and work on all metals btw

[AlTech]

Stay on topic guys!

[Zando_]

3 minutes ago, S w a t s o n said:

No no, Apple will offer a $599 titanium card holder that also cant go in pockets or wallets, you keep the card holder magnetically attached to the back of your iphone for ease of access of course.

 

Apple magnets are magic and work on all metals btw

But now where do I put the phone with the card holder and card attached? What happens if I hold it wrong? 

[S w a t s o n]

2 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

But now where do I put the phone with the card holder and card attached? What happens if I hold it wrong? 

Well we all know how that goes
https://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-holding-it-wrong/

[suicidalfranco]

Mean while my cheap poor people plastic card: looks new, and on it's last year before they send me a new one: and that's the only thing i constantly get in and out of my wallet every time i gotta pay/buy something (rarely carry cash or coins with me)

[Zando_]

3 minutes ago, S w a t s o n said:

Well we all know how that goes
https://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-holding-it-wrong/

Still one of the top 10 biggest lmao moments in Apple's history (others would be stuff like the banana-controller pippin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Bandai_Pippin). Also really funny that it was the user's fault for holding it wrong, yet they added another antennae line and moved the top corner one to the side and the problem went away (sadly I haven't even used my 4s or 4Ss as actual phones so I haven't tested the various Apple approved holding methods). 

[RedRound2]

1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

Also, Apple basically says magnets will turn the Apple Card into a brick.\

Yeah, that's the case with all magnetic strip cards, sherlock

 

Inside pockets of leather wallets and insides of jeans pocket are usually made of fabric, so you actually won't have many issues to begin with. Second, the physical card is more of a collectible item than anything. Even Apple discourages you to use it, rather instead use Apple Pay on the iPhone with double the cashback.

 

In other words, they made an extremely attractive premium looking card, so that everybody would get it, and then end up forcing the said users to learn how to use Apple Pay, due to better cashbacks. That was pretty much Apple's master plan tbh

[DrMacintosh]

If you have a leather wallet and a plastic card, you will see that the silver punches for your name are no longer solidly silver. The abrasions from pulling any card out of a wallet over time will cause damage. The Apple Card is no different. 

[Blademaster91]

The silver paint wearing off a regular card is a thing sure, though imo that isnt as bad as a white "premium" card turning blue because it got put in my jeans pocket a few times.

[RejZoR]

While titanium sounds fancy and is a good material for certain types of applications, the use here is ridiculous. It's like someone engineered it by randomly picking a material and never actually checked where people store them or how they use them. What's next, credit card protectors so you have them undamaged in wallets meant for credit cards? LOL

 

What I'd totally dig would be credit card made of Gorilla Glass. Scratch resistant, stain resistant, can actually be bent a lot before it even considers breaking. And it would look sick, transparent with chip on it.

[TetraSky]

Colors fading on cards in normal with usage.

Just because it's made of metal, I don't expect it to be any different even if it's from Apple.

[handymanshandle]

24 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

While titanium sounds fancy and is a good material for certain types of applications, the use here is ridiculous. It's like someone engineered it by randomly picking a material and never actually checked where people store them or how they use them. What's next, credit card protectors so you have them undamaged in wallets meant for credit cards? LOL

 

What I'd totally dig would be credit card made of Gorilla Glass. Scratch resistant, stain resistant, can actually be bent a lot before it even considers breaking. And it would look sick, transparent with chip on it.

Some how I feel like that’s next, watch samsung do that lmao 

[RejZoR]

59 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

Colors fading on cards in normal with usage.

Just because it's made of metal, I don't expect it to be any different even if it's from Apple.

People also have this misconception that TITANIUM is this indestructible metal. It's really not. It has certain cool properties like lightweight for its strength, it's hypoallergenic and very anti-corrosive, but on a hardness scale it's about as tough as stainless steel. Meaning it'll scratch, dent and bend about the same as stainless steel. And if you give it a matte finish it'll work like a sandpaper. Which is why it gets all messed up in jeans and leather wallets. If they made it polished they'd fix those problems, but then it would be a smudge magnet and you'd see all the scratches on it instantly from kilometer away.

[Blademaster91]

1 hour ago, RejZoR said:

While titanium sounds fancy and is a good material for certain types of applications, the use here is ridiculous. It's like someone engineered it by randomly picking a material and never actually checked where people store them or how they use them. What's next, credit card protectors so you have them undamaged in wallets meant for credit cards? LOL

 

What I'd totally dig would be credit card made of Gorilla Glass. Scratch resistant, stain resistant, can actually be bent a lot before it even considers breaking. And it would look sick, transparent with chip on it.

Well Apple should have included a credit card protector, or had the cards laminated to prevent the titanium from staining though i guess that would take away from the cool metal feel. Apple not testing things for how people actually use them? Not much of a surprise tbh.

A glass card would be interesting, though i'd rather it be made of metal than glass because i'd rather not have a card in my wallet that is as fragile as a phone screen, and if you accidentally drop your card its gonna be useless shattered glass.

36 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

People also have this misconception that TITANIUM is this indestructible metal. It's really not. It has certain cool properties like lightweight for its strength, it's hypoallergenic and very anti-corrosive, but on a hardness scale it's about as tough as stainless steel. Meaning it'll scratch, dent and bend about the same as stainless steel. And if you give it a matte finish it'll work like a sandpaper. Which is why it gets all messed up in jeans and leather wallets. If they made it polished they'd fix those problems, but then it would be a smudge magnet and you'd see all the scratches on it instantly from kilometer away.

Maybe a weird example, but that doesn't seem to be problem with phones that have a glossy finish on the back, which show even more fingerprints and scratches than a matte finish.