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This is quite impressive, although inconclusive... Apple Pay currently accounts for 5% of credit card payments (from article), but, more importantly, this does
by sambroner 7y ago
This is quite impressive, although inconclusive... Apple Pay currently accounts for 5% of credit card payments (from article), but, more importantly, this does not include non-card transactions like WeChat!
Still, I think that Apples deep ecosystem integration will ultimately allow them to make a really compelling payments platform. The existing work on the Apple Card is surprisingly compelling. By just offering some basic, but fun bookkeeping (the colors changing on the digital card and a list of purchases), Apple has already made a product many of my peers want to use.
I expect peer to peer payments to get more attention and some "Apple Health for Money" product to come out in the medium term future.
- intopieces 7y ago>this does not include non-card transactions like WeChat! This is common in these articles. For some reason the west is entirely unaware of WeChat, despite it being massive in terms of userbase. I'm starting to see restaurants in the Bay Area that take either Cash or WeChat... no Apple Pay in sight.