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Apple Watch Users Embracing Apple Pay for Everyday Purchases

I don't have an Apple Watch yet (probably after Christmas 2015) but I've enjoyed using Apple Pay on my 6 Plus here in the UK.

There are a couple of times I've done things incorrectly (therefore delaying the process) but it's good to know there's an option (besides my wallet) when I wish to pay for goods.
 
I've been happily using it for the last week or so - I had to switch bank (away from Barclays UK) to do it. Not had any issues. Reasonably happy with the £20 at present.

A few people in shops have commented that it's the first time they've seen it used.
 
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mw360 said:
The sale of their unannounced products and services, so far referred to as 'tools' and 'insights'.

Given the headlines on this page http://www.wristly.co/#!insights/cgiv I don't think their research into the popularity of Apple Watch is entirely unbiased. I'm not saying they're wrong, just that they're clearly trying to make headlines and create a market for their products, whatever they may be.
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I'm still not following, unless your suggesting their "product" is positive surveys on Watch. But what's the motivation? Someone woke up one day and said I'm going to create a firm that puts out positive research on Watch? And they did this because?
 
RichTF said:
And yet I've never had it fail once. Interesting. :rolleyes:
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I'm a fan and it's currently the technology I hope moves forward the fastest, as I can't wait until I no longer have to remember my wallet when I leave the house. That being said, I've had Apple Pay fail about 50% of the time I've tried to use it. To the point that I just pull out my debit card so people behind me don't have to wait.
 
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RichTF said:
And yet I've never had it fail once. Interesting. :rolleyes:
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I have - Home Depot shows the icon for contactless payment but it's not working at my store. This has been discussed on MR before, apparently Home Depot is "working on" implementing it but in the meantime can't find the menu option in their POS software to turn off the display icon on their terminals. Also one checkout lane at my local grocery consistently ignores devices (my watch & wife's iPhone 6) so we just avoid checkout lane #5 now :)
 
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I'd use it WAY more if two things would happen:
1) If I found it in more places than McDonald's
2) If my main bank would finally support it. What's with that?!?
 
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Here is my typical day in the UK: I get up, I go out, I park my van, I get lunch at Boots or Tesco, depending on what takes my fancy on that particular day, when I go back to my van I pay at the machine before leaving the car park. I get the occasional coffee if I have chance, maybe get something nice for dinner from any number of places. - Not once do I need to take out my phone or wallet, everything on my wrist :D.

The Apple watch has its downsides, but the UK already had embraced contactless pay, so my apple watch has just made it even easier to do stuff like that, the last couple of big hold outs is ASDA, which is thanks to Walmart being arseholes in America and pulling the strings. Sainsbury's are introducing contactless pay (FINALLY!!) by the end of the year and we're set.
 
Azzin said:
Sounds like you have a problem with your phone.

Get it fixed/replaced under warranty/Applecare.
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Can't. No Apple Store in my country, and premium resellers refuse to touch the phone, no matter the problem, because it's from China. Last time I had a repair was unappointed on my vacation in Paris, but that still required me to visit all three Apple Stores in the city to find one that had capacity for me.

It works. It's just really spotty at times. Is it because I can't sweat, have dust on my fingers or squeeze them too hard, deforming them when being scanned?
 
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It didn't work for me initially because while the card was there I hadn't confirmed it yet. However, I've used it in cabs a few times. I'm a bit put off using it at stores because it seems a bit awkward. If there is a line at the store I've probably pulled my phone out anyway to kill time, so my phone is in hand.

Also it seems there aren't too many places that I shop that have the NFC. Partly this is because I really don't shop that much and I don't go to big brand stores that often. The smaller shops that I go to, like for lunch during the work week, would really benefit from these terminals since well over half their customers have iPhones. But the store owners probably don't want to spend the money and they don't realize the time savings these devices would bring to them. Trust me that if you have a lunch place in mid-town which gets packed every day, any time savings would pay big time. But owners don't get it yet, probably because they don't realize how many of their yuppie customers are carrying iPhones and who would pay with Apple Pay if it was available.

Next year is going to be the year of Apple Pay though once stores have to upgrade their terminals.
 
Rogifan said:
I'm still not following, unless your suggesting their "product" is positive surveys on Watch. But what's the motivation? Someone woke up one day and said I'm going to create a firm that puts out positive research on Watch? And they did this because?
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Well, as they themselves say on their own "About Us" page:

"In a few years there will be more wrist-based devices than smartphones and, in our opinion, the Apple Watch is the catalyst for the wearables computing platform. Our vision is to contribute to the Apple Watch success by delivering innovative tools and services to developers and marketers of the platform."​

They see it as their mission to tell good stories about the Apple Watch in particular. Exactly what they get out of it is unclear, but they ARE clear about the fact that they want to contribute to the positive spin about the :apple:Watch.
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anthonylambert said:
Maybe apple should come out with a "Apple Bangle" for the other arm which talks to the Apple Watch... and has another reader in it ;-)
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Why not? Ive could do :apple:cuff links (they'll look great on that plaid shirt) with an embedded 1/2-S chip. A single LED for the display, available in several finishes. $149? ;)
 
"The remaining 20%..." Please check the Wristly text. It was only 20% of those who had never used it that gave the reasons you listed (not interested or security concerns), not 20% of all users (19% of all owners have never used it and 20% of those people have the reasons above). Most simply did not have a card that works with Apple Pay.
 
Use Apple Watch daily to pay on London tube commute and lunch/purchases. It's so simple become send nature now. iPhone payments take longer as need to recognise your fingerprint but the Watch is brilliant. Accepted everywhere in London.
 
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80% used at least once doesn't give any information about how many continue to use it. That's a better indicator of success, because using a product once does not mean it has been a success in the marketplace.
 
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bbeagle said:
So anything convenient is lazy?

I guess Remote controls are just for lazy people?
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Maybe it's not completely being lazy. But on the opposite side, to describe paying with an Apple Watch as transformative, amazing, and magical? We're not curing cancer here people.
 
Wow, a lot of negativity in this thread. I mean, I'm kinda bearish on Apple Pay for various reasons but I don't want it to fail.

Anyway, I use Apple Pay a lot more often now that I have an Apple Watch. As much as we all know that more security is good thing, it needs to be convenient for people too. Granted, it's gotten better on the phone side in iOS 9 since you can double-tap from the lock screen and quickly pre-authenticate yourself while you're in line.
 
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Rogifan said:
I'm still not following, unless your suggesting their "product" is positive surveys on Watch. But what's the motivation? Someone woke up one day and said I'm going to create a firm that puts out positive research on Watch? And they did this because?
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I could see this as their mission. They may be a young analyst firm that is trying to position themselves as the "go to" firm for wearable technology data and research. Very common... however, they should also be very fare and unbiased in their reports otherwise, companies will call BS on them and they will be dismissed as not creditable.

I've seen this sort of thing several times over the past 30 years.

However... at this point it's hard to tell if they are credible or not.
 
I would use my watch to pay more if my Bank supported registering "Mastercard" and "Visa" not just one! and also if they allowed me to register my business card!

When I travel around on business all day and would like to bill it to my business card not my personal card!
It would be great to have an app down the line to feed this into some kind of expenses application. If anyone is listening.
 
And this leads to my biggest Apple Pay complaint.....

They've GOT to educate store clerks on this thing AND make it clear/obvious that it's not only accepted someplace, but make it clear/obvious where the terminal is you're supposed to put your device next to, to actually perform the transaction!

A while ago, I looked like a fool when I tried to use my watch to use Apple Pay at a Starbucks location. (I assumed, wrongly, that they were on-board with the technology 100%. If anyone was, it'd be Starbucks, right? Well, no... They still want you to pay by displaying the barcode from inside their app. They don't have an NFC reader anyplace to directly interact with Apple Pay.)

Often, I'm in a place with a long line and the last thing I want is to fumble around when I try to pay but it's not working properly. (People in line tend to have very little patience for the guy trying to "play with his hi-tech gadget instead of just pulling out cash or a credit card and getting on with it".)


ghostface147 said:
I use it every chance I get. Sometimes the cashier didn't even know. That means you subway.
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I use it maybe 5-6 times a week. Mostly vending machines where it's effortless. Hold watch up. Done.

I've used it in some stores too where I have to press a CREDIT button afterwards (even though my default 'card' is debit). No biggie.

I've also seen readers at gas stations for things like the vacuum cleaner station and also at highway rest areas (vending machines again).

All told, I've used the phone once. The watch is so much faster.
 
This is really the USP of something like a smart watch - where it can make something easier than would otherwise be possible. So things like paying for things, or opening doors.

Basically being able to do things without having to take something out of your pocket.

Sure, its niche, and its not really that much of a problem.

But in time it will likely become one of those things where a future generation will see things like keys and bank cards as old fashioned things their parents used to use.
 
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