“A new app designed to crowdsource an interactive map of businesses that accept Apple Pay just reported adding 12,673 new merchants in North America, 95 percent of them being small businesses,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider. “In parallel, its developer reported that the new app’s users have increased an incredible 750 percent over the past two days, indicating a lot of interest in Apple Pay.”
“Apple is quickly expanding Apple Pay’s reach beyond the U.S., with the service launching in the UK in June and more recently in Canada and Australia last month,” Dilger reports. “It is expected to begin operating in China early in 2016.”
“Apple’s still-dysfunctional performance in Maps’ point-of-presence data has created a need filled by the PayFinders app, and users appear to be very interested in finding the Apple Pay data that Apple itself has yet to consistently, competently deliver in its own,” Dilger reports. “This is a particularly strange problem for Apple to continue dragging into 2016, given that Apple’s new universal search in iOS 9 does provide complete search results (including Apple Pay acceptance) for many locations that Maps itself can’t quite seem to return relevant results for on its own.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Who has less accountability, a TV weather forecaster or anyone on Apple’s Maps team?
Good news for Apple Pay and bad news for Apple Maps is wonderful news for the Pay Finders app.
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Wow. 5 stars for usefulness but only 1for being so butt-ugly! Come on people, this looks like something designed by a would-be web designer from the 90s, or something available for tasteless Droid losers. And black and white only no less. Yikes, it hurts my eyes 🙁
I kind of agree. One can only hope that the app is very light-weight and runs really fast.
Now I can use Apple Pay at Whole Foods and TJs. That’s a 100% increase for me.
This is an ugly app that is tedious to use. I tried it and deleted it twice. The concept is good, but the expression is crap. I’m currently giving Locator a try. At least it uses color, and I didn’t have to give the company my first born to post a new Apple Pay location.