According to the latest Timetric study, published by Reuters the value of transactions made with Apple Pay has reached 10.9 billion dollars in the past year. In the study we can see how Timetric also talks about the problems that Apple is facing with banks that do not want to adopt this technology, since it does not want to share the commissions they charge to businesses for allowing their customers to pay with credit cards. credit or debit, in addition to the different technical issues that you are encountering in each country you arrive in.
Bendigo Bank, a small Australian bank you are having difficulty implementing Apple Pay on certain terminals, problems that have been slow to resolve due to the speed with which the arrival of Apple Pay in your country was announced. In addition, merchants are being forced to replace the dataphones that they used until now due to these compatibility problems.
According to the study, every time Apple Pay lands in a new country, the adoption rate among its users is very fast as well as high, although this is not always the case. After the arrival in China, many are the users who affirm that the operation of Apple Pay is more complicated than paying through WeChat, another of the forms of payment available in the country and that work through an application.
Apple limited the use of its new payment platform only to the United States for almost a year, a country that was the guinea pig and where the Cupertino-based company has already managed to reach an agreement with more than 1000 credit institutions and banks. so that your clients can make payments through their clients' iPhone. Currently Apple Pay is scheduled to arrive in Spain and Hong Kong, and is now available in Australia, Canada, China, the United States, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.
