aevar

spheric said:

aevar said:

hey Apple, how about bringing Apple Pay to Iceland? Only 3 banks to deal with, they are all pretty quick to adapt new tech and always copy what the others are doing. Vast majority of people in Iceland use touch free cards already and 90% of payments go through credit or debit cards, hardly any cash. Most of the card machines here are already equipped to use Apple Pay and I’ve often seen tourists use it here.  It’s a no brainer. Also, bring Apple Music and compete with Spotify that has own the market here for 5 years.

Also, a total potential userbase of 300,000 people at 100% market share across the entire population. 

Now subtract kids and others who may not own a mobile device. 

At iOS' current market share of 53% of mobile devices in Iceland, that's what — *maybe* 100,000 potential users, total? 

5 months later; https://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/19/05/08/apple-pay-launches-in-iceland-with-support-from-arion-banki-and-landsbankinn

now we only wait for Apple Music...

spheric said:

aevar said:

hey Apple, how about bringing Apple Pay to Iceland? ...

Also, a total potential userbase of 300,000 people at 100% market share across the entire population. 

Now subtract kids and others who may not own a mobile device. 

At iOS' current market share of 53% of mobile devices in Iceland, that's what — *maybe* 100,000 potential users, total? 

Sure, it’s a small number, 340.000 but kids use cards at a very early age and have fairly new iPhones. But we do get 2 million tourists here every year, but like I said, they are already using Apple Pay here. It’s an easy market and I’m sure it’s not difficult to implement. Infrastructure already exists. Could boost some iPhone sales as well... 

hey Apple, how about bringing Apple Pay to Iceland? Only 3 banks to deal with, they are all pretty quick to adapt new tech and always copy what the others are doing. Vast majority of people in Iceland use touch free cards already and 90% of payments go through credit or debit cards, hardly any cash. Most of the card machines here are already equipped to use Apple Pay and I’ve often seen tourists use it here.  It’s a no brainer. Also, bring Apple Music and compete with Spotify that has own the market here for 5 years.