Apple Pay Will Reinforce Mobile Card Spend of iPhone Users
Boston, MA (PRWEB) April 21, 2015
Six months post release, what do we know about Apple Payâs prospects? Early consumer surveys of iPhone users reveal that few users have both enabled a card on the app and gone ahead to make a purchase with it. Worse, few retailers seem to support Near Field Communication, or NFC, paymentsâ"just 700,000 locations according to Appleâs latest reckoning. Will lack of avenues to use Apple Pay at the point of sale doom its likelihood of becoming the iPhone userâs payment method of choice?
Analyzing data from a number of sources on mobile commerce, demographic characteristics, and payment industry trends, Mercatorâs latest research note, Apple Pay at Six Months: A Medium-Term Outlook, argues that writing off Apple Pay for its slow initial adoption misses the forest for the trees. Mobile is increasingly becoming the foundation of all retail experiences, whether online or in-storeâ"Apple Pay, by making it easier to shop on mobile makes the entire experience more convenient and far more secure.
âApple Payâs elimination of the inconvenience of entering card numbers to complete purchases on smartphones and tablets will hasten mobileâs growing dominance of the overall e-commerce pie, which continues to expand. We will also see brick-and-mortar merchants creating new retail experiences that leverage Apple Pay in their native apps for a seamless payment experience,â comments Nikhil Joseph, Emerging Technologies Analyst at the Mercator Advisory Group and author of the note.
Highlights of the research note include:
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