Apple gets a percentage of every card processing fee. They want Visa and MasterCard to keep existing, they just want to be the ones processing those payments instead.
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Apple Pay to Work With Mobile Websites Later This Year
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Apple gets a percentage of every card processing fee. They want Visa and MasterCard to keep existing, they just want to be the ones processing those payments instead.
I've been begging for this since TouchID was first introduced. Password entry, purchases, etc. It'll be perfect.
It's time for Macs to have Touch ID. Bring it, Apple!
Couldn't this be done like keychain that can already store and fill in your credit card info? Just have it store the device account number rather than the actual card number. With keychain we still have to enter the 3 digit card security code so there is a safeguard built in. As others have suggested, maybe triggering TouchID on a phone or iPad that's logged into the same AppleID could transfer the dynamic token?
It'd be fine if Apple decides to add TouchID to new macs to streamline the process, but I hope a new computer won't be necessary to use the feature at all.
It'd be fine if Apple decides to add TouchID to new macs to streamline the process, but I hope a new computer won't be necessary to use the feature at all.
Best thing you can do is ask at every store you go into. Look for the symbol on the terminal. Often times you can educate them. You wouldn't believe how many clerks didn't know they supported it and it worked. I was just in an Irving Circle K gas station this morning and the woman said, "Oh, we don't have that" when I put the phone up to the terminal. She even said that her manager had told another customer it didn't work as well. I told her I had used it there many times in the past and she was surprised when it went right through.
I use it everywhere I can now. Reduces the opportunity for credit card theft.
That was probably badly worded. Let's take a look at how the NFC part of Apple Pay's doing though:
- US: hostile retailer environment (either actively in the case of MCX or passively in the case of retailers who are taking a "wait and see" approach/have de-prioritized it in an attempt to stop losing money from swiping chip cards sooner)
- UK: £30 limit, patchy retailer support outside major cities
- Canada/Australia: AmEx only, resulting in poor retailer acceptance
- China: too early to tell
Sounds an awfully lot like they want to be a bank...
What do you want to bet they make it work with a mac, but will still require an iphone to use it. Will also likely require Safari to complete any Apple Pay transaction.
I'd be fine with that. I assume a TouchID enabled iPad could substitute for an iPhone.
Yeah I have Samsung Pay and it works literally everywhere. One place where Samsung definitely has Apple beat.
About time!!!!! I don't think I've seen an Apple pay terminal in a store yet, so actually being able to use it for online stuff would be friggin amazing! Be great to buy stuff without having to create yet another account just to buy one thing, I always use PayPal if it's available to try and avoid doing that.
Yeah, I can't help but think that the next iteration of Apple Pay (in the iPhone 7) is going to take a page from Samsung Pay and be able to mimic a card swipe without blatantly infringing on Samsung's patent (hopefully).
I don't get all the talk about TouchId somehow being necessary to use web Apple Pay on a laptop or tablet.
Hundreds of millions of us use PayPal, stored cards on Amazon and on iTunes on iPads without fingerprints.
Hundreds of millions of us use PayPal, stored cards on Amazon and on iTunes on iPads without fingerprints.
I would LOVE to see that functionality. That would easily trump the current things being rumored (waterproofing, wireless charging, lightning ear buds, etc.)
I was a day 1 customer for the 4, 5 and 6. But none of the rumored features have me excited about the 7. Now that AT&T charges a lower rate once the phone is paid off, I'm not looking to upgrade just to upgrade. But that kind of functionality would get me off the fence.
How is expanding something an admission that it's not successful? Wouldn't it be the opposite? If they stopped growing that would signal a failure to me.
This is something with your local walgreens, apple pay works fine at every walgreens I've been to. Even your walgreens card goes through apple pay instead of them scanning the barcode.
My iPhone has nothing to do with it as I can use my Apple Watch independently. The iPad can be used in apps to make payments with Apple Pay and it has no NFC. The Mac doesn't need NFC because you're not going to pay with it in a store. I'm not sure why people can't wrap their minds around this! It's for paying online. You don't need NFC, you don't need Touch ID.
No one says it's necessary, just more convenient. Online retailers are always looking for ways to stop people abandoning their baskets at the checkout; a one tap payment will certainly help.
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Wow.
That was quite a reach.
Expanding the service is actually a sign of success… in this reality anyway.
Apple Pay with one touch authorisation is definitely going to make purchases more seamless. I definitely looking forward to it.
Just wondering how much will Apple charge vendors for per transaction fee. And all these data which Apple will be collecting.. Are they going to relay these data to their iAd platform *seriously not working*. Oh well, just curious~
Just wondering how much will Apple charge vendors for per transaction fee. And all these data which Apple will be collecting.. Are they going to relay these data to their iAd platform *seriously not working*. Oh well, just curious~
If you live in the Midwest, you can buy gas at the Meijer's pump using the native Pay app. No fooling around necessary as with Mobil speedpass setup.