06-10-2015, 07:40 PM
silvarios wrote:
Let's just clarify, if those numbers are correct, that's 6% of Apple users have used the service. That seems like good growth to you. Remember the other 80%+ of the market can't use Apple Pay while out and about. How is the Android payment service that predates Apple Pay by years, a knockoff? It wouldn't bother me if it were, after all, don't all your credit cards essentially work the same way, but this is the weirdest Apple Pay tidbit I've ever read.
That 6% is a really fuzzy number that needs to be more clearly defined to hav any value. Is that 6% of all Apple users? All iPhone users? All iPhone 6/6s users? All iPhone 5/5s/6/6s users? Does it include Apple Watch owners?
Apple Pay does not predate Google Wallet - making it all the more remarkable that AP's success has outstripped GW's. The other major competitor in this segment, CurrentC, can't even get off the ground.
This Forbes article hailing AP's success in overtaking its competitors was published six months ago -- the gap between AP and its competitors has only widened since then: http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/20...-the-dust/
EDIT: I guess this is the source of the 6% referenced earlier: http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/03/1...5-have-not