06-10-2015, 02:53 PM
silvarios wrote:
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[quote=silvarios]
There was the ridiculous puff piece about how Apple is doing things as amazing as the entirety of the Industrial Revolution
While I also scoff at the overall hyperbole inherent in that claim, Apple Pay is in fact going to fundamentally change how the world conducts credit- and debit-card transactions. It's already happening.
Numbers I've seen are pretty underwhelming right now (6% adoption on less than 18% of the entire world market for mobile phones) and Google's payment system was largely the same and predates Apple Pay. Regardless of Google's offerings, haven't other countries had the option to pay with cell phones for years? Apple Pay seems like a rather well thought out mobile payment system, but it's hard to call it out as the one to change the world…yet.
ApplePay is the only standard that has traction. 6% is amazing growth, and Android Pay is a clear knockoff. But that's ok - so long as the two systems are the same use-case for the user, this is fine.
I posted back then that I think ApplePay was the most important announcement at the time, and I stand by that assessment. Ironically, I do not use it - I live in a smaller town, and usually pay cash.