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Apple Pay doesn't stop other payment provisions from functioning. The same contactless reader will read Apple Pay, Contactless cards, and Android Pay. Of cours
by paperpunk 10y ago
Apple Pay doesn't stop other payment provisions from functioning. The same contactless reader will read Apple Pay, Contactless cards, and Android Pay.
Of course Apple Pay will only be available to Apple users. That's literally what Apple Pay is: contactless payment on an Apple device. There's no reason for there to be Apple Pay on Android or another platform.
- tomp 10y agoMy worry is that if because of Apple's market power, merchants would be less likely to implement other NFC technologies (Contactless, Android Pay) once they have Apple Pay. The technologies are clearly different (even if they use the same reader), otherwise all places that support one would automatically support all of them.
- izacus 10y agoWhich still means I'm not allowed to pay for anything on an Apple device (since Apple hasn't and probably won't make it available locally), while an application built by my bank would.
- coldcode 10y agoI've worked for banks. I'd trust Apple to build a secure environment but not a bank.
- izacus 10y agoWhich kinda misses my point. A "secure" Apple service only available in select few countries with no ability to compete or implement your own is more useless than theorycrafting your experiences from banks to other world banks.