Apple Watch Users Embracing Apple Pay for Everyday Purchases

[MacRumors]

Apple Pay on iPhone is a convenient and secure way to make payments without taking a debit or credit card out of your wallet, but you still need to take the smartphone out of your pocket to make a purchase. For that reason, Apple Pay has proven more transformative on Apple Watch, since the device is worn on the wrist and readily available for contactless payments.

Apple Pay with a phone is still just taking something out of your pocket. Not transformative. With a watch it's amazing. End of friction - Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) June 28, 2015

The latest data from research firm Wristly supports that notion, with 80% of the over 1,000 respondents surveyed in the U.S. and U.K. claiming they have used Apple Pay on an Apple Watch at least once. The remaining 20% of respondents indicated they "do not perceive a benefit" to Apple Pay, have security concerns or believe their payment needs are already being met.

Just over half (51%) of respondents described using Apple Pay on the Apple Watch as "magical," an adjective often used by late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, while 42% indicated that the service is "convenient." An additional 3% of respondents said Apple Pay is "good," but with some areas of concern, and the remaining 4% of users found Apple Pay "not that useful."

Given the choice, 79% of respondents preferred to use Apple Pay on the Apple Watch and 9% preferred to use the mobile payments service on an iPhone. The survey panel most commonly used Apple Pay for everyday shopping (81%), in addition to recurring services such as Starbucks (60%), bigger purchases (35%), in-app purchases (29%) and other purchases (11%)...

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[Roller]

Apple Pay on the watch is very convenient. Unfortunately, not enough retailers accept Apple Pay yet.

 

[attila]

Well, you have to use it for something!

 

[Flunkyturtle]

i loved it - but i returned the watch in the end. Just could not get it comfortable on my wrist.

 

[Rogifan]

I concur with this. Easy to use and it's never not worked for me. Now we just need Pay in more locations.

 

[quackers82]

I love Apple Pay on my Apple Watch. I never use it on the iPhone. Infact Apple Pay is so quick i sometimes think i have not paid.

 

[MacDarcy]

Yeah, but you have to lift your wrist all the way up to the counter with the apple watch! Sooo exhausting!

 

[Ferc Kast]

Still haven't touched Pay on my iPhone 6, though a lot of places I shop in-person still don't offer it.

 

[mw360]

Tired of these Wristly reports now. The company exists to hype the Apple Watch and similar platforms for their own benefit...

Our vision is to contribute to the Apple Watch success by delivering innovative tools and services to developers and marketers of the platform.

 

[lcseds]

Society is getting lazier and lazier. Too much effort with a wallet eh? Sheesh.

 

[iCloudStrife]

Meanwhile in Australia…

 

[Rogifan]

Tired of these Wristly reports now. The company exists to hype the Apple Watch and similar platforms for their own benefit...

What exactly is their benefit?

 

[bbeagle]

Society is getting lazier and lazier. Too much effort with a wallet eh? Sheesh.

So anything convenient is lazy?

I guess Remote controls are just for lazy people?

 

[lcseds]

So anything convenient is lazy?

I guess Remote controls are just for lazy people?

You gotta draw the line somewhere. Seen the movie Wall-E yet? Once everything becomes convenient as you say, we will be doing next to nothing. Just sayin'

 

[barkomatic]

I have been behind a few people trying to use Apple Pay on their watch and it certainly isn't convenient for me to watch them make several attempts before pulling out their wallets and paying in cash.

 

[testcard]

"Transformative" seems a little strong. Now if Apple Pay could raise the dead or allow me to live forever...

 

[FSMBP]

I dunno - something about paying with using your fingerprint on my iPhone seems so badass

 

[patjem]

It's not exactly payment but I stayed in Brussels last weekend at a SPG hotel that allowed me to open the hotel door with Apple Watch. A great experience http://verkeersbureaus.info/contributors/2015/08/18/67020-met-apple-watch-je-hotelkamer-openen/

 

[RichTF]

I have been behind a few people trying to use Apple Pay on their watch and it certainly isn't convenient for me to watch them make several attempts before pulling out their wallets and paying in cash.

And yet I've never had it fail once. Interesting.

 

[friedmud]

You gotta draw the line somewhere. Seen the movie Wall-E yet? Once everything becomes convenient as you say, we will be doing next to nothing. Just sayin'

Wall-E is satire... Not a foretelling!

Since I got the watch I've used Apple Pay (and Starbucks and movie tickets and plane tickets) on it everywhere I can.

I've also lost 20 pounds, using the activity rings to motivate me.

Is it possible that convenience gives us more time to do the things we want (like exercise, spending time with family, playing with the dog, going on an evening walk) rather than the things we have to do (like paying for stuff)?

Nah - convenience must be all about just making us fat and lazy /s

 

[Rogifan]

I have been behind a few people trying to use Apple Pay on their watch and it certainly isn't convenient for me to watch them make several attempts before pulling out their wallets and paying in cash.

Well you've obviously never been behind me then as I've never had that experience.

 

[Vjosullivan]

What exactly is their benefit?

Given that surveys based on self selection aren't worth the pixels they're printed on: the only benefits of this survey are to generate through traffic to their web site and to generate publicity for their brand.

 

[ckurt25]

And yet I've never had it fail once. Interesting.

Same results for me. I think I've had better luck with the watch than the phone. Every time I use it the cashier and anyone in line near me is like "What did you just do?"

 

[TonyC28]

Problem 1: Finding a place that accepts it
Problem 2: Finding a place that accepts it and it actually works

 

[l3it3r]

I use my watch every single day at Starbucks. Granted that's not Apple Pay, but i love using it for payment. Looking forward to more places accepting it.