It seems that this year if it is the year of Apple Pay. Last year, Apple's electronic payment technology advanced very slowly and with little growth expectations for countries where it was not currently available. But this year, however, we do not stop publishing news related to Apple Pay, its expansion to more countries, of new banks and compatible credit institutions ...
In Spain, without going any further, at the end of the year German bank N26 will begin to provide Apple Pay service to all its customers. But also, the boon card, a prepaid card is also currently compatible with Apple Pay in our country.
The announcement has not been made directly through the banks that will offer this service, but was made by Tim Cook himself at the conference in which the Cupertino-based company presented its quarterly results, corresponding to the third fiscal quarter. of the year, second quarter of the year. As usual, the company has not offered more information in this regard, something to which he has us accustomed every time he makes an announcement of this type.
At the moment, Apple has not opened an Apple Pay section for these countries, a section that usually opens when there is little time for the launch of this technology in a new country. Actually Apple Pay is available in the United States, United Kingdom, China, Australia, Switzerland, France, Hong Kong, Russia, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, Italy, Taiwan, and Ireland.
According to the latest rumors about the expansion of this technology, the next countries where Apple plans to offer this technology are Belgium, South Korea, Germany and Ukraine, although at the moment there is no specific or estimated date on when it will be available.