The USA is a big holdup. I just traveled across the country and there are still filling (petrol) stations where the only card reader is stripe. See also other comments about the stripe being a fallback for chip as chip readers on POS terminals seem to be more fragile than magnetic stripe readers.
FWIW, Contactless is very hit-or-miss for me in the US; about 1/3 the time it just doesn't work at all (even with multiple retries), and that's when the terminal has one. Was picking up something at the corner store the other day, realized I didn't have my wallet and contactless just didn't work with the phone at all for some reason.
FWIW, Contactless is very hit-or-miss for me in the US; about 1/3 the time it just doesn't work at all (even with multiple retries), and that's when the terminal has one. Was picking up something at the corner store the other day, realized I didn't have my wallet and contactless just didn't work with the phone at all for some reason.