Anywhere that accepts Diners Club accepts Discover. So acceptance of Discover in the UK is quite good.
The issue is acceptance of contactless Discover/Diners. Which is basically nil.
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Well rest assured Apple will never be involved in my future, in any context, least of all banking.
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Might be true for everyone here
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An annoying addition to a bulging market of thisnfunctionality. However Iāll almost definitely use it 
Itās kind of like telegram now becoming more mainstream in a WhatsApp iMessage text Facebook
Messenger Instagram messenger wechat world (note aware different countries seem to favour different apps)
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Any reason why?
Donāt trust them. Ever since I did my IT degree where the Macs were terrible. Then the whole āiā thing happened, and people actually started buying them again, and coming to me when they didnāt work. Every time i borrow my wifeās iPad, it never does what I need, and I end up going upstairs to get my Samsung which works perfectly. Someone tried to monzo.me using Apple the other day and it just ādidnāt workā - no errors or anything - I just never got the money until he tried again without Apple. And then thereās the whole thing about using UNIX but making everything proprietary. They clearly donāt quite get that UNIX wasnāt designed to benefit a single organisation. Finally, the price of them. Really?! I can buy 20 yearsā worth of PCs for the price of an Apple, and that way you get a new one every 5-6 years, with no compatibility issues. The fact that they have never even tried to compete with Microsoft in the Server or Office space speaks volumes. In large corporations, reliability and compatibility are way more important than the look of the hardware. I have a mate who is an IT manager for a large bank, where they have tried some Apple stuff. The number of weekends he has had to work to try and unravel Appleās dodgy releases is unacceptable to say the least.
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I used to feel like this about 18 months ago when I first joined Monzo. That confidence has long since dissipated.
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People tend to forget Apple isnāt a software company like Microsoft. Apple is a hardware company which happens to create its own software to run its hardware.
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Totally agree.
Also, my experience with Macs (at least in the modern day, referring to 2008 onwards) has been the opposite - MacOS much more reliable than MS Windows, and much more user-friendly. I guess it depends on what you are used to.
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I understand your incessant need to defend Monzo as a crowdfounding investor, but regardless of your personal opinion on Apple, the matter of fact is that people use Apple products. Many Monzo users have iPhones, and the majority of those that use Apple Pay and Monzo want consistency. Youāre going completely off-topic just to absolve Monzo of their responsibility.
Your argument is simply āI donāt care for this thread or their users requests because it doesnāt matter to me.ā
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Not true. āUNIXā was originally closed source (was created by AT&T) but MacOS is based specifically on BSD which was also closed source until the 90s. Also Apple does make much of the underlying OS open source in the form of Darwin: Darwin (operating system) - Wikipedia
Also not quite true. Yes you can get āa PCā for a fraction of a cost of a Mac, but not a comparable PC. Itās a high end laptop with high end features. A comparable pc which has the same quality of components would be like a Dell XPS 13 which only costs about Ā£100 less than a MacBook Pro.
In my opinion, the only reason why Appleās software issues make the news and get so much attention is because having major issues and security problems with Microsoft software is par for the course. On the whole both iOS and MacOS are much more secure and stable than both Android and Windows.
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Where did I mention Monzo?
Used to be true. Clearly iTunes and Apple Pay are examples of a more recent evolution in strategy.
Nobody, but nobody, who cares about uptime runs either windows or macos on servers.
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macOS is far better than Windows with memory management but itās made for GUI interaction. Thatās was literally the reason macOS was so famous and Windows copied it. So itās no surprise both of them arenāt good for backend.
But letās get back to issue at hand: WHERE IS APPLE PAY!?
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I donāt want to get into this debate really, but fwiw my sisters recently got new laptops. One got a high end MacBook Pro, the other an XPS. The specs are almost identical, the price difference was Ā£1k. Granted, the MacBook has a touch bar.
Each to their own, I use a ThinkPad running Ubuntu with i3 (window manager) personally.
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Yeah the touchbar does add a ridiculous amount to the costā¦ the XPS 13 starts at Ā£1149 and MacBook Pro sans touchbar is Ā£1249 but with the touchbar the MBP starts at Ā£1749 (!!!)
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The real price of the MacBook is the software; something you donāt really pay for with a Windows machine (Windows licenses cost peanuts for OEMs); thatās the 1k difference. Of course, it doesnāt matter if your objective is to put Linux or some other OS on them anyway.
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Why do these topics always get sidetracked? Could we not start a new thread in general chat for Apple related products?
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Like Cider, with posts about Scrumpy in a separate thread!
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