I wouldn't even say that much. They bought out x.com as a competitor and threw their garbage code in the trash
Confinity already had payments between palm pilots back in fucking 1998, before x.com even existed
I feel like palm pilots are super impressive for the time period they existed in. They were so futuristic! Basically the 1998 smartphone
Not to be pedantic but Palm Pre didn’t have anything to do with Palm Pilot, totally different OS. What’s crazy is they were setting up payments via Palm Pilot long before gadgets like the Handspring VisorPhone were available. That meant the only way to complete the payment was to sync the Palm Pilot to your PC back at your desk. Makes sense why they would pivot to pay by email and eliminate the need to use a Palm Pilot.
I never said it did. I was just stating my love for a phone that was underrated and had a short, yet bright, lifespan.
WebOS lives on, in my TV!
I remember the hardware fire sales as HP told us to look at the flowers.
As of now? Nothing other than twitter.
Musks plan is for X to basically be the wests version of WeChat.
Which is weird since the US Fed is now trialing a direct transfer service, and you're a lot of dead boomers and genXers away from dethroning V/MC/Amex from their ubiquitous payment networks. There's nothing you can do on the consumer side to make fund transfers cheaper or more attractive (reward systems already pay consumers to use cards) and also get vendors on board (who hate the 2.5-2.8% they already pay; they're sure as shit not going to pay you more than the going rate). Plus, given how poorly the code at Twitter was managed, you'd have to be an idiot to trust X with your money.
The main benefit of credit cards is they are credit. So if there is an issue you can hash it out before you actually pay for it as oppose to asking they send the money back.
The main appeal of credit cards is that their safety system has been so weak for so long, they had to develop amazing support systems just so people would use their horribly bad payment method.
The support systems still remain, so if I don't get my package, that's somehow the credit card company's problem now.
Here in Australia we've had direct transfer between banks for what seems like decades, yet people still use PayPal etc. If X gave me a reason to use it for payments, I would have no problem using it. I use paypal for some things, direct bank transfers for some, bpay for others, credit cards for others.
Man, I would love it if there was a non-corp owned way of giving money to people. Even the homeless have switched to PayPal/Venmo, and it’s to the point Visa/PayPal control and tax every transaction.
Brazilian central bank created a service like this (called PIX) a few years ago and now debit card and even cash is getting less and less used
Yet. It's not a competitor yet. Musk has been open about working towards making it a competitor.
Again because last time went so well. And Elon musk is known for not liking and failing at complying to regulations, and that man wants to run a financial service provider? Hahahaha
Last time he got bought out for hundreds of millions of dollars, so yeh I’d say it went pretty well.
And then he continued to work on his x.com ideas, to be kicked out because he wasn't able to produce a product. Obviously he made money, but his idea failed. And him making money, doesn't change anything about his history with not complying with regulations and his plan to run in the modern environment a financial service. 9/11 changed the finance world. Obviously musk doesn't quite know that.
