“Apple launched Apple Pay in 2014 with a plan to try to replace your wallet. Its first service was digital payments with credit and debit cards,” Dan Frommer reports for Recode. “In the meantime, it has added support for transit passes and loyalty cards, and — as announced tonight — for Square Cash.”
“But what about other things that still require carrying a physical wallet, such as identification cards?” Frommer reports. “‘Everything in your wallet, we’re thinking about,’ Apple VP Jennifer Bailey, who runs Apple Pay, said at tonight’s Code Commerce Series event in San Francisco.”
Frommer reports, “Bailey wouldn’t elaborate on plans to digitize forms of identification, such as drivers licenses, but it sounds like it’s the sort of thing Apple would like to eventually support.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We’ve been using Apple Pay more and more in the U.S. over the past few months. It seems many of the retail establishments we patronize have recently become Apple Pay-ready. Are you seeing that where you live, too?
Just spent three weeks in New Zealand and Apple Pay
Was accepted pretty much everywhere contactless payments were accepted. Which was pretty much everywhere.
Were you there during the big quake near Christchurch?
Apple has pretty much gotten everything in my wallet for the last forty years, they might as well take the wallet too. 🙂
What about my desktop…it needs replacin’ too.
I think a Mac mini Pro would be market-smart.
Is it really too much to ask for Apple to make a current Mac with a PCIE x16 slot?
NVIDIA makes drivers for the current versions of OS X that work perfectly with the 900 series and I’m assuming the same would be true for the 1000 series
Without a Mac that has a PCIE x16 slot they’re pretty much forcing high-performance Mac users to get an expensive thunderbolt adapter or to use a hackintosh setup…
No, don’t mix up your lineup! A mini is a quiet entry level box, the Pro USED TO BE the no-constraint performance champ. Apple has been inexplicably ignoring the huge hole in the desktop line for a midrange Mac in a breadbasket size box , real user upgrade ability, and no iMac styling constraints.
I heard that you had died or something. Are you now revived and come to live here with my son and the other trolls?
Still need Gas, grocery and restaurants and that percentage will skyrocket!
Huh? I haven’t used cash to buy gas for over 40 years. All my groceries and restaurant bills are put on my credit cards too. Now with Apple Pay, I don’t have anything in my wallet except two pictures of my children, a drivers license and a backup credit card. Of course, I don’t live in the Divided States of America though.
I keep my drivers insurance card in iBook as an imported PDF. It would be nice if that could be added to the wallet app.
Everything?? You mean like condoms, too? 😜
Replacing everything from your wallet into theirs.
Apple’s wallet is local only, nothing is kept on Apple’s servers … everything is still contained in your pocket. With the added benefit of being securely encrypted.
I live in Canada and you can use Apple Pay almost everywhere. We have had chip CC for years and we’re use to tap.
Tap tap in Switzerland, too. Everywhere. Almost everywhere. No more cash with my Apple Watch.
After 4 years nothing happening in The Netherlands with Apple Pay. Why this takes so long?
How about replacing the Mac Pro under my desk?