[I'm an Apple engineer, but not working in, or speaking for, that department] Apple Pay is great when it works, and it's my default method of payment. I rarely

[I'm an Apple engineer, but not working in, or speaking for, that department] Apple Pay is great when it works, and it's my default method of payment. I rarely use it on the phone, but I love using it on the Apple Watch. It's rare enough that I still get double takes from vendors all around the world. In the US, lots of credit cards are compatible with Apple pay, but contactless POS are still rare, and occasionally they get disabled (IIRC Walgreens disabled theirs for a while). In Europe, the problem is the opposite: Contactless POS are ubiquitous, but in many countries, only niche CC providers support Apple pay. This is not too dissimilar from carrier support in the early years of iPhone, though, and I can see the situation improving over time.