It will come to HEB supermarkets of Texas.
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It will come to HEB supermarkets of Texas.
No it wouldn't. There are tons of applications for NFC BESIDES payments. This unlocks that.
Nice! Looks like HEB is coming to there senses and finally getting on board with Apple Pay!
Been unlocked for years. This only opens payment access outside of Wallet. No benefit for consumers.
PayPal does have Tap to Pay on iPhone enabled, but only for businesses to accept credit cards.
Apple didn’t follow that approach for it’s mobile wallet, though. The use of Apple Pay isn’t limited to Apple, it’s accepted practically everywhere but walmart, whereas Walmart Pay is only accepted at Walmart.
They’d have to accept cash and bank transfers only to get out of credit card fees. It’s just not feasible. The US doesn’t even really have instant bank transfers like Europe or Mexico.
Plus you’re storing your real credit card info on their servers. Walmart Pay still uses your regular credit card.
They won’t save any money by doing that. Didn’t you read the article? Apple will be charging a fee for their apps to be able to use the iphone’s NFC. I’d say that will discourage them from doing as you say rather than encourage them.
And you failed to read the article too. Otherwise you’d know Apple will be charging devs for access to the iphone’s nfc for payments, which discourages that fragmentation since they won’t save any money by pulling out of apple pay and requiring to use their own app.
Not only that: with apple charging for access to the nfc for payments, they’ll be less inclined to pull out of apple pay in favor of their app since they won’t save any money worth of fees paid to Apple.
But if they still have to pay a fee to Apple for using the iphone’s nfc to pay then what would benefit of doing that?
They’ve never had to pay apple anything. Apple doesn’t deal with merchants. Besides, if they want to have their own apps to pay at their stores via nfc using the iphone then they will have to pay Apple a fee for accessing the nfc, which they’re not paying right now.
They could already be using nfc. For years apple has had support for nfc enabled passes in wallet, but no one cares to use it except walgreens.
No it isn’t. Apple Pay generates a unique ‘card’ number, called a token, for each device. Walmart Pay uses your real credit card info stored on walmart’s servers.
NFC for other uses was already unlocked, just not for payments.