Jesus wept, Presto was a truly awful rollout, not least of which was the awful UX/UI of the terminals at the stations.
Oh, and of course, in 2021, you still cannot tap-to-pay using NFC on your phone. Now, that may not be Accenture’s fault; that could obviously and easily be the failure of sclerotic Canadian bureaucracy. But I would not be surprised if the back end simply does not support such a thing without another $50 million in consulting fees.
As I am told very often on HN, security is expensive. It is expensive to use an off the shelves password hashing algorithm, or to use parameterized SQL queries...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto_card
And from personal experience:
Jesus wept, Presto was a truly awful rollout, not least of which was the awful UX/UI of the terminals at the stations.
Oh, and of course, in 2021, you still cannot tap-to-pay using NFC on your phone. Now, that may not be Accenture’s fault; that could obviously and easily be the failure of sclerotic Canadian bureaucracy. But I would not be surprised if the back end simply does not support such a thing without another $50 million in consulting fees.