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by prostoalex 4440 days ago
The model is scalable outside of NYC, and "can't be bothered to carry a credit card around every day" critique can be applied to any service that tries to improve payments flow (Square, Starbucks' mobile app).

On "techy enough", for reference, 11% of Starbucks purchases is happening through their mobile app - http://news.starbucks.com/news/starbucks-accelerates-mobile-...