06-10-2015, 07:48 PM
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
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/
Users. Very few users are routinely using the service and many haven't used it all. As far as adoption, many companies are stupid, they starting pulling NFC terminals out in early to mid 2014 and then put them back in at the end of the year when Apple Pay came out. You know what else works with these NFC terminals? Yeah, Google Wallet/Android Pay/or whatever it is called now. I did a quick search and at least 10 merchants in a five minute or so drive accept NFC payments with Google Wallet/Android Pay/whatever the name. My guess is many also accept Apple Pay.
Although not explicitly said, you seem to agree it is weird to tout Google's service as a copy of Apple's service.
By the way, I remember all the breathless articles about Google Wallet terminals being installed everywhere as well. People still need to actually use them for this whole thing to work properly.