Ries said:
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Apple Pay doesn't even work in my country. We have a nation wide P2P app that also works with android and costs nothing to use, Apple wouldn't have a chance here.
Sure it would. First of all Apple Pay won't cost anything other than the usual charge if you are going to "charge" it against a credit card. But more importantly, People around the world are waking up to the dangers of having Google gather all of your personal information into one database via your "universal identifying number," where they link all of your data, e.g., a copy of every email ever sent or received, what you buy, what you post, all your photos, where you drive, your friends, your family, every web search, etc. Folks are saying, "no more" in increasing numbers to Google and Facebook. Frightening for these giant corporations to own (yes, read your terms of services folks, e.g., when you use Google photos, you in essence give them a perpetual world wide license to use them) all of your personal information. That dossier on you is also available to governments, law enforcement, hackers, criminals, and of course, your intel agencies.
Thankfully, Apple is offering a way out to Android users who are switching in record numbers.