Originally Posted by IslandNiles:
“..NFC terminals are becoming much more commonplace. They're in Boots, M&S, most of the coffee and fast food chains, etc. .....
Will Apple manage to change things? ......... But, Google Wallet definitely hasn't really penetrated the market in a way that's going to make retailers or banks or anyone else want to jump on board with mobile payments.....”
“..NFC terminals are becoming much more commonplace. They're in Boots, M&S, most of the coffee and fast food chains, etc. .....
Will Apple manage to change things? ......... But, Google Wallet definitely hasn't really penetrated the market in a way that's going to make retailers or banks or anyone else want to jump on board with mobile payments.....”
You listen to the biased US press too much.
The main beneficiary of ApplePay could be google wallet or more likely the Google Wallet prepaid card.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/moneybui...-prepaid-card/
'Unlike many prepaid cards, the Google Wallet Prepaid Card charges
No fee to order the card and no fee to activate it, No annual or monthly fees,..No ATM withdrawal fees' (Its free to fund with a bank account too)
The problem for those in the US is that near enough no one will tell them that the 'tap and pay' systems accept all NFC contactess cards.
But once again, if those cards are charging the US retailer too much then they die/have slow take up.



