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[โ€“] mholiv@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Small clarification. Apple Pay is not really paying with your phone bill. I think you can but most users just have their credit card or debit card linked.

[โ€“] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

That's why I used e.g instead of i.e :) That's one use case for Apple Pay that you can't get from the website. Another would be that you don't share your card details with whoever Patreon's payment processor is - which might make sense if you trust Apple more than some particular processor