“New info from Changewave confirms Apple Pay as top choice among US consumers, though some concerns remain — security and availability lead these,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “Apple has given credibility to the whole mobile payments sector. Changewave found 45% of consumers plan to use Apple Pay, up five points since December.”
“Smartphone owners using iOS (34%) more than twice as likely to use mobile payment apps compared to Android (16%), BlackBerry (13%) or Windows Phone (5%) users. Interest in using PayPal declined from 32 percent to 28 percent,” Evans writes. “A Boston Retail Partners survey shows 40 percent of all large retailers plan to support Apple Pay this year.”
‘That kind of interest stands starkly against some analysts who have predicted Apple Watch will do little to boost Apple Pay adoption,” Evans writes. “They’re wrong.”
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MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote of Apple Watch back in December:
Apple Pay alone will sell the device.