On March 25, Tim Cook announced that the planned expansion of Apple Pay would allow offer this electronic payment service in more than 40 countries. The first to be added to the list of countries where Apple Pay is available since the announcement of Apple's chief executive is Iceland.
Apple Pay comes from the hand of Arion Banki and Landsbankinn, banks that have announced through their Twitter account that already offer support for this technology. In this way, all customers who have a credit or debit card from this entity can now associate it with Wallet and start making day-to-day payments with the iPhone, Apple Watch or iPad.
Little by little, Apple Pay is becoming a major source of revenue for the Cupertino-based company. In the financial results for the last quarter, this technology helped Apple reach a record of income in the services category, reaching 11.500 million dollars.
Apple introduced this technology in September 2014, arriving a month later in the United States in October 2014. Since then it has been expanding to more than thirty countries. This technology allows us to make secure payments in stores and applications, as well as web pages, using the iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch. What's more it was the company's first step in the banking sectorBeing Apple Card the second.
Apple Pay is available today at: Germany, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Isle of Man, Guirney, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Norway, New Zealand, Russia, Poland, San Marino , Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, United States and Vatican City.