Not a reason to upgrade, but possible would be nice to have if available on my 840. Always carry my iPhone and sometimes Apple watch, plus at least $20 cash.
FWIW Costco VISA (Citi) still not supported in Garmin Pay. But I also have a Chase card that is compatible.
If I still had a 520, would be saving or selling stuff to buy the 1050. But my 840 is only a year+ old and no issues with it.
Another bit of weirdness with the 104 is that it rattles in the Red Shift Garmin computer mount. Itās a āBar Flyā insert, so whatās up with Bar Fly? Iāve got a bunch of other mounts, and no problems, but that one, rattlesā¦
Wonder of the 1050 has mount issuesā¦
On Payment in the US: Google Pay is the latest Google service to bite the dust
Aside from branding though, does it matter for tap payments? It was replaced by Google Wallet, effectively just consolidating the two into one. Obviously, Google being Google, but not sure at the end of the day it actually matters anywhere.
Except Google Wallet isnāt available on iOS. Or at least it isnāt available in the US iOS App Store.
Iām a little confused by this. Apple Pay isnāt on Android, either; these are proprietary to the hardware and OS.
From a pure technology standpoint, it does not. NFC payment protocol is a published standard, so it all comes down to branding and partnerships. E.g. in the USA you canāt put a Citi bank issued card on Garmin Pay or Google Wallet/Pay because reasons, likely money at some level. 
Google Pay app used to be on iOS, but like so many services, Google killed of Google Pay and wrapped it into Google Wallet which isnāt available on iOS.
But why not use Apple Pay on an iPhone? Iām genuinely curious, it sounds like Iām missing something.
@FergusYL - I was responding to this post and the reference to stores in the US advertising Google Pay who donāt support Apple Pay:
Canāt say I recall seeing that, and Iāve been using my Apple Watch to pay for stuff for almost 10 years. Home Depot changed recently, maybe itās them? I order online and ride my bike to pick up. Walmart is just Walmart Pay, right?
No clue. As I said, I was just responding to another post that made this statement. As an Apple user (iPhone + Watch), I just notice if a store doesnāt support Apple Pay along with physical credit cards, not what other virtual wallets it supports. I just see a binary: Apple Pay support or not
Yeah, I guess outside of weird US corporate randos (Walmart is the only one Iāve stumbled into myself), the rest of the world, I can use anything anywhere between Apple Pay, Garmin Pay, Google Walletā¦without issue.
Just wait for it to get weirder in the US as the result of this settlement being over turned - Federal judge rejects $30 billion settlement between Visa, Mastercard and retailers
And yet there are places that appear to support āall of the aboveā. The local gas station FINALLY enabled their NFT stuff (something like 5 years after it was installed) and they claim, so the sticker says, that they they support all of them. I tried Apple Pay twice. First time, worked great. Second time? Face planted. was completely ignoring my iPhone. I guess āyou mileage may varyā covers more than just your MPGā¦
I guess I had heard that Google Pay was going/went bye bye, but donāt use Google anything, and didnāt make a note of it.
But the local Kroger went through a dizzying list of āalternativesā, including a āscan, bag, goā scheme that caused shrinkage to explode. I think it lasted a couple months. People were getting completely grossed out because no one was cleaning the handheld scanners I guess. They even had a āKroger Payā that was supposed to be like Walmart Pay, with QR codes. It crashed to the ground too.
For a retailer, why fight it? Sure they get a part of each transaction, but making shopping difficult for your customers should be, I think, a bad idea. Call me crazyā¦ And are NFT schemes at critical mass yet? Who would think thereās room for another one? Seems āill advisedā?
Home Depot is an outlier for their non-support of the major NFC payment methods. They have an agreement with PayPal that probably is getting in the way.
I think itās also POS equipment issue. none of the pin pads Iāve seen even support NFC. They do cost more.
I canāt imagine the cost to refit a store chain for new card processing systems. Yeah, they are not cheap but for customer convenience, to pass on NFC processors is so tragically short sighted IMO. People LOVE the ātap and goā idea. Having to stick a card in the machine, and wait until itās approved is frustrating for people. (The local gas station that accepts Apple Pay requires a āchip-cardā remain in the pump for multiple seconds, yet if you ātap and goā, itās a simple quick process (IF it works. Last time I tried, it kept saying āUnable to read card, try againā yet it has worked at other stations))
Garmin Pay is hardly a feature that would make me upgrade to the 1050. And the 1050 doesnāt support Garmin Pay. I thought this sub-thread was about it being supported as a feature. ** Looking at all the Garmin watches, I did get a pang of regret for selling the fenix I had. It was a great looking watch, but I personally couldnāt see using it for biking.
It wouldnāt make much sense IMO. Whateverā¦
Regarding HD, I noticed their removal of cashiers, having only one person at the self-check area, and my last trip, there was ONE cashier, and three people āmonitoringā the self-check machines. I wonder if their management is embarrassed for the missteps they have made, and if they do have newer NFC-less processing systems installed, whoever decided to avoid contactless pods should be publicly flogged. 
(And I donāt think Menards supports NFC either, and their POS systems are near antiques! Iāve had multiple times where their receipt printers were broken. Last time I saw a $0.98 sticker on the one next to the monitor (they have TWO printers at each register), and asked if it was really ninety eight cents. The cashier chuckled and said that even at that, it would still be incredibly overpriced. OUCH!)
** There is a bug in Firefox, where if you search for a word in a page, and a hit is displayed at the top of the page, the header frame hides that hit. 
Now, if Garmin would only allow you to tag the bike used in the FIT file based off of sensors.
thatās why you use intervals.icu 