Little by little, Apple Pay is expanding around the world. The latest data informs us that the five largest banks in the country are already compatible with Apple Pay. However, as we can read in the latest report published by Reuters, Apple is facing various technical problemsNot only with banks but also with establishments that claim to be compatible with this technology.
According to the report, even though Apple Pay is quickly becoming a new form of payment among the company's enthusiasts, the general public is not living up to expectations. Last year Apple moved 10.9 billion dollars with Apple Pay, but most, if not all, was done in the United States.
One of the biggest problems the company has faced is technology. Several are the banks of some countries that are having problems with their dataphones at the time of being able to make payments with the current terminals, which is forcing the banks to have to replace them, a task that takes time as well as being quite expensive.
As reported by Apple's Jennifer Bailey
Like other technological changes, it takes time for users to get hold of them. We want to move forward as quickly as possible in the shortest possible time, but you have to be patient.
In China, users complain that paying with Apple Pay is not as simple as existing WeChat services. Other merchants, such as Wal-Mart, refuse to use this form of payment in its establishments throughout the country and, together with other companies, is about to launch CurrentC, a new form of payment through an application that does not require a NFC chip in the devices, which makes it compatible with all the terminals currently on the market.
A bit unfortunate ... and more so when Samsung Pay has already managed to start working in Spain.
The ugly thing is that when I went to the US I couldn't use it either: / and nobody in the stores where they sell iPhone knew how to solve me and I couldn't go to any Apple Store 🙁
If they do not implement it, it is difficult for it to work outside the USA ...