Saw a commercial in Japan “Remember to visit the ATM on Friday because we’ll have 3 solid days of downtime for a systems upgrade” and This Is Fine, I suppose.
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“What?!?” Tremendous mismanagement of technology on behalf of large non-historically-technology companies in Japan plus the assumption that customers won’t change banks over two nines of uptime.
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Replying to @patio11
Haven’t been there for a while, is Japan still mostly cash-based? Had assumed cashless options were big now
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“It’s complicated.” Credit card adoption continuing apace, there’s great interest in wallets but little adoption outside of the transit vertical (where they are huge), and strong push from gov’t/finance to decrease cash payments but a huge gap in the plan.
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