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                 Mint Adds Minimal Integration with Apple Card

   Josh Centers

   As [1]reported by 9to5Mac and confirmed by TidBITS reader Al Varnell,
   the budgeting service [2]Mint now supports the Apple Card, at least to
   an extent. In Mint, you can connect to your Apple Card account to view
   your balance, available credit, total credit, APR, and total fees.
   Unfortunately, Mint does not import Apple Card transaction data, likely
   because it's not available on the Apple Card Web portal (see '[3]Apple
   Launches an Apple Card Web Portal,' 3 July 2020). Since the whole point
   of Mint is automatic tracking of your transactions, that makes its
   current level of Apple Card support almost entirely moot. We can hope
   that Apple adds transaction data to the Apple Card Web portal in the
   future so actually useful integration becomes possible.

   While Apple's goal of rethinking how we interact with credit cards was
   laudable (see '[4]Apple Card: More Than Just a Credit Card,' 28 March
   2019), it should have started with the current state of the art as a
   baseline, rather than being forced to add features to make the Apple
   Card as technologically capable as other credit cards in ways users
   have come to expect.

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References

   1. https://9to5mac.com/2020/07/09/apple-card-mint-support/
   2. https://www.mint.com/
   3. https://tidbits.com/2020/07/03/apple-launches-an-apple-card-web-portal/
   4. https://tidbits.com/2019/03/28/apple-card-more-than-just-a-credit-card/
   5. https://9to5mac.com/2020/07/09/apple-card-mint-support/

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