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tooki:
The chances of that many chips failing randomly is practically zero. So two theories: 1. Something is causing damage to your cards, or 2. the chips aren’t actually damaged.

Just to rule out absolutely everything: you do have the physical card enabled, right? It can be turned on and off at Will from your iPhone.

tkamiya:
1)  I have 4 different card in my wallet.  Only Apple card failed and did so multiple times.
2)  Once it fails at a store, I test it at another store.  It failed both times.
3)  Of course the card is enabled. 

Theory is great.  Reality is different.

Halcyon:

--- Quote from: tkamiya on December 15, 2021, 12:43:44 am ---I have 4 different card in my wallet.  Only Apple card failed and did so multiple times.

--- End quote ---

Another example of "quality" modern Apple design and manufacturing perhaps?

 :popcorn:

tooki:

--- Quote from: tkamiya on December 15, 2021, 12:43:44 am ---1)  I have 4 different card in my wallet.  Only Apple card failed and did so multiple times.
2)  Once it fails at a store, I test it at another store.  It failed both times.
3)  Of course the card is enabled. 

Theory is great.  Reality is different.

--- End quote ---
Ok, man, breathe, it wasn’t an attack.

The fact that the Apple Card is the only one to fail doesn’t rule out either of my theories.

Maybe the Apple cards are more susceptible to something, such that something you — or the terminal in a shop you frequent — causes it to fail.

Or maybe there’s something in the terminals at the shops you’ve tested at, such that by random chance it’s failing at those, while still would have worked elsewhere.

Or maybe the chips are fine and there’s some configuration error somewhere causing them to be rejected.

What we can rule out with certainty is there being any kind of widespread issues with the cards. They’ve issued millions of them, so if there were some common problem, we’d know about it.

You say “of course” about the card being activated, but a lot of people don’t even realize the option exists.

eti:
Just snap it in half, stamp on it and toss it in the bin. Ridiculously over-rated nonsense. We managed perfectly well in life before Apple came along. Yeah they make some nice things, of which I’ve owned many, but they’re VASTLY hyped and over adored. The world needs a smack back down to earth and wake up from the delusion of Apple EVERYTHING.

Non experts & “unboxers” speak of Apple products in terms they’re unqualified in - they say how amazing the build quality is - half of them have only a few years of experience doing YouTube videos, and they base this opinion relative to other CONSUMER goods. They don’t know the other 98% of electronic machines, inside which they’ve never seen - it would put Apple to shame.

I’ll give Apple this though - at least they aren’t Samsung; now THEY are scraping the very bottom of the barrel.

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