A couple of days ago, my colleague Pedro Rodas published an article stating that it would not take long for Apple Pay to expand rapidly throughout Europe and other countries such as Australia. It seems that Tim Cook reads Soy de Mac and yesterday during the presentation of results, Apple CEO confirmed that Apple Pay will arrive in Spain next year. The year is very long, but Tim did not offer more information about it, so from now on we will have to follow all the rumors that inform about Apple's negotiations with Spanish banks.
At the moment this electronic payment technology is available in the United States, with over 1000 banks and partner financial institutions, and the United Kingdom, where a few weeks ago the only one of the four large banks that still did not use this Barclays service joined.
As has happened in the United States and the United Kingdom, presumably in a first batch the main large banks in the country adopt this form of payment And over time, the rest of the smaller banks will also join this technology that facilitates payment in shops with only the fingerprint, without having to show our identity card.
For several months, many businesses have They already allow payment through contactless technology, NFC, so it will not be necessary to wait for shops and department stores to have to change all dataphones to be compatible with Apple Pay, at least it is a step that we have already done and it will not be a reason for delay in the implementation of this technology .
In the same conference where Apple offered the results of the last fiscal quarter, Tim Cook announced that 48 million iPhones, 9,9 million iPads and 5,7 million Macs had been sold. The only device that saw its sales figures drop was the iPad, which has been in free fall for a little over a year, while Macs have sold more than in the same period last year, in which 5,5 were sold. , XNUMX million teams.
