Charlie Warzel, BuzzFeed News technology reporter, describes the friction and fragmentation of mobile payments during his 2016 experiment living completely cashless.
“I created a folder on my phone called cashless. And it was every time I saw something, an opportunity, you I would download an app, and it ended up being, I think, like, 64 apps”
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