danielchow

GeorgeBMac said:

My friend has no trouble sticking her debit card into a gas pump (the largest source of scanners) -- but refuses to use ApplePay because she thinks it is too risky.   Nothing I have been able to say seems to convince her otherwise.

Apple has a mountain to climb.  
... She probably won't be convinced till her kids start using it and she looks old fashioned and foolish.

Not only that. Many merchants mix up the idea that their NFC device would not take ApplePay, because they think that it is something that they have to get from Apple. In fact many merchants are not aware that their device can process contactless transactions. The thing is that where ever there is a contactless point of sale device, transactions through Apple, Android and Samsung Pay can be processed but many consumers and merchants aren’t aware. Also most people are looking for that Apple Pay sticker before they think to use it. But a contactless POS device is a contactless device. It doesn’t need a sticker from Apple, Android, or Samsung.

This was probably why Apple is discontinuing their current hardware because it’d be a waste of resources to keep manufacturing the Airports when a new hardware standard is going to come out (?)