The arrival of Apple Pay China has not been as calm as might have been expected. There are many users who have experienced problems when trying to link their credit cards to the apple mobile payment service. The reason would be that Apple would have underestimated the demand for China and, therefore, the servers are struggling to stay afloat by the deluge of users who are trying to sign up for Apple Pay.
Apple hoped that the inhabitants of the Mandarin country would gradually sign up for the service, since the possibility of adding cards was released little by little. But the response was much higher than expected, so the servers have collapsed and, as usual in these cases, it works normally for some users, for others it gives them certain problems and for others it doesn't work at all.
It seems that Apple Pay will be a success in China
Initially, Apple feared that its mobile payment service would not be very successful in China. The reason was that there national mobile payments cover close to 100% of the stores, so the Chinese would already have their preferred payment method and it would be difficult to change their minds. But the first information that comes from China is that they are turning to Apple Pay.
Alipay, one of the local mobile payment services for iOS and Android, has more than 400 million active users, which shows how widespread this type of payment is in China. But Apple Pay is backed by UnionPay, which gives it a certain advantage by reaching many more establishments than the most direct competition in the country.
And that in the country where Apple has its headquarters, the United States "only", in quotes, has just over 322 million inhabitants, a figure far exceeded by active users who use Alipay. This shows that the forecasts for the future that ensured that China would be the main market for Apple Pay they were right.
In the meantime, in other countries such as where a server writes from, we will still have to wait to be able to use Apple Pay. If they deliver as promised, Apple's mobile payments service should eventually Spain in 2016.