Excruciating New Credit Cards Finally Give Apple Pay a Problem to Solve

In Italy and everywhere I have been in Europe, chips payment have been way faster and easier than with the old "always prone to de-magnetization" bands.

USA, for a country that better than many other countries knows how to leverage cashless micro payments (in Italy no one pays a 2€ bar order with a card), seems so technology backward in comparison.

Either Americas implementation of chip systems for credit cards is terrible, or it's another case of Americans complaining about nothing.

Australia has had chip+pin as standard for years now. It's fast, it works well and honestly for a purchase of soap ad razors you're more likely to just use payWave or the MasterCard equivalent.