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[rabernet]

So this shaves, what, 20 seconds or so off of my trip to the ATM, and it's just 20 seconds that I spend tapping on a phone earlier? I have a hard time seeing how that's a major benefit unless both of the following are true:

a) ATMs in your area are extremely busy.

and

b) EVERYBODY using your ATM uses this, thus increasing the ATM's "person bandwidth" similarly to how instruction pipelining works on computer CPUs.

I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a neat concept, and kudos to NCR for thinking of it and actually bothering to implement it, but for most people, I don't think it really saves much time.

Also, whoever wrote that press release needs to learn that ATM stands for "automatic teller machine," and thus, writing "ATM machine" is equivalent to "automatic teller machine machine," and therefore redundant.

I don't see any benefit to this. We don't need everything going mobile. It does cancel out my debit card, but I'll need that anywhere I go. Not many people use cash now either.

The benefit that excites me is not using my debit card and worrying about whether someone has installed a skimmer unbeknownst to me.

Can't please everyone, I guess.