Australian T3

Spending your hard-earned cash has never been so easy

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OK, so it hasn’t arrived just yet, but eventually you’ll be able to pay for goods using the functional­ly monikered Apple Pay, simply by tapping the icon and scanning your fingerprin­t.

The site will instantly know who you are (and securely too – no details on your fingerprin­t are sent) complete with shipping and payment info, so you won’t need to tap away with myriad forgettabl­e passwords.

You won’t be able to tap an iPad when trying to pay for a McDonald’s in the real world, as there’s no NFC here, but come on, you don’t want to be that person anyway.

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