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Purchase Your Next Starbucks Coffee With Your iPhone!
Posted by: Joseph Hong | November 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Starbucks Canada is now offering to let their customers pay with their iPhone app. Starbucks joined the large group of businesses that are allowing their customers to use their smartphones to purchase their products. The app links to a registered Starbucks and it can do various functions: checks the balance, reload the amount on the card with credit card, locating the nearest Starbucks branch, etc.
LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE (Starbucks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or6U0GeZ4j0&feature=related
The growing technology improvements are allowing people to live their life more conveniently. Not only do businesses use smartphone applications in an attempt to decrease the use of wallets but they are creating thinner, more mobile technologies. For example, BMO Bank of Montreal released that their customers can use a sticker/tag that attaches to your mobile phone that will act as the PayPass technology. As I talked about more goods becoming mobile in a blog regarding Joel Lim’s blog post, people are drawn to more mobile technology. While these mobile technologies allow us to travel more conveniently and create more business opportunities, some people argue that today’s technologies are making us lazier.
LINK TO ORIGINAL SOURCE (BMO PayPass Tag)