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Canada's RTR has no chargebacks so it's not comparable to visa/mastercard where you can yank the money back up to 6 months later if the seller doesn't send you what they promised. Pretty much every modern phone can do tap to pay, you don't need an iPhone
> Pretty much every modern phone can do tap to pay, you don't need an iPhone

but you do need a device to read the phone right? to support all kind of difffent payment system. compare to a simple picutre printed QR code, which one is more convenient?

nope you can just tap your phone on the seller's phone: https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/7786-get-started-wit...

Same way you can tap your credit card on their phone to pay them. It's the same protocol, just with biometrics on the buyer's phone so the limit is $50k instead of $10k

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