in the video points out, not even your credit cards have fingerprint protection--nor do they really need them. Security concerns around digital wallets are real (real enough to be the subject of academic articles, anyway). But these concerns pale, probably, when measured next to other barriers to adoption: the bewildering array of options, a lack of education, and for certain technologies (like NFC), a deficient infrastructure.
A fingerprint reader, while fun, won’t leap any of these hurdles. Which is why iCache’s new technology, despite all the thought that appears to have gone in it, may wind up just another cumbersome iPhone add-on, as bulky and unnecessary as George Costanza’s bloated wallet.
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