MSE News: 'Apple Pay' coming to UK next month: Here's how it will work

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Users of certain Apple devices will soon be able to pay for goods at some UK retailers using their handset...

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'Apple Pay' coming to UK next month: Here's how it will work




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NFH

The Daily Mail published early this morning at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3145332/Time-pay-Just-wave-iPhone-Apple-Watch-Shoppers-use-devices-buy-coffee-bus-tickets-tills-today.html saying that Apple Pay would be launched in the UK today. It has since been removed, but some caches of the page remain online:

http://www.hotapplenews.com/article/shoppers-can-use-iphone-or-apple-watch-to-buy-coffee-or-bus-tickets-from-today-25828038-fb7649.html

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22Shoppers+can+use+iPhone+or+Apple+Watch%22&btnG=Search&gws_rd=ssl#q=%22Shoppers+can+use+iPhone+or+Apple+Watch%22+site:dailymail.co.uk

I'm guessing that Apple is made an advance press release for today but the Daily Mail published the article before they were supposed to, hence the removal.

NFH

Pocket-lint has noticed this too:

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/134486-is-apple-pay-coming-to-the-uk-today-one-big-source-seems-to-think-so

Anthorn

There will be a backlash against banks and building societies which promote Apple Pay from the anti-apple people who don't want an iPhone or anything Apple. It will be a case of bye-bye Nationwide from me.
http://www.nationwide.co.uk/about/media-centre-and-specialist-areas/media-centre/press-releases/archive/2015/6/8-apple-pay?et_cid=12211124&et_rid=5819951102

NFH

Anthorn wrote: »

There will be a backlash against banks and building societies which promote Apple Pay from the anti-apple people who don't want an iPhone or anything Apple. It will be a case of bye-bye Nationwide from me.

There will be equivalents of Apple Pay from Samsung and possibly a wider Android version. There's no need to be anti-Apple and consequently anti-Nationwide, just because Apple was first to market.

d123

Anthorn wrote: »

There will be a backlash against banks and building societies which promote Apple Pay from the anti-apple people who don't want an iPhone or anything Apple. It will be a case of bye-bye Nationwide from me.
http://www.nationwide.co.uk/about/media-centre-and-specialist-areas/media-centre/press-releases/archive/2015/6/8-apple-pay?et_cid=12211124&et_rid=5819951102

Any bank that supports contactless payments is likely to support ApplePay in the long term (even Barclays).

If you are going to take that strange anti-Apple at all costs attitude who do you expect to be banking with? No one will force you to use ApplePay if you don't want to...

DUTR

NFH wrote: »

There will be equivalents of Apple Pay from Samsung and possibly a wider Android version. There's no need to be anti-Apple and consequently anti-Nationwide, just because Apple was first to market.

How can they be 1st to market when Samsung via Orange had this system from years back.

SnowTiger

Anthorn wrote: »

There will be a backlash against banks and building societies which promote Apple Pay from the anti-apple people who don't want an iPhone or anything Apple. It will be a case of bye-bye Nationwide from me.

Odd. It won't make any difference to people who don't use iThings.

I can easily patch my Android phone to an iThing by attaching a sticker sent to me by Barclaycard. They call is a PayTag.

DUTR

SnowTiger wrote: »

Odd. It won't make any difference to people who don't use iThings.

I can easily patch my Android phone to an iThing by attaching a sticker sent to me by Barclaycard. They call is a PayTag.

The Samsung/Orange was around from 2011

20aday

EE have Cash on Tap for qualifying Android phones; there's the Barclay's PayTag (as mentioned above) and also Android Wallet (which I believe launches with Android M) for those who don't have/don't want an iDevice.

If you don't want to use the facility; you don't have to (nor do you have to ditch your bank account!)

SnowTiger

DUTR wrote: »

The Samsung/Orange was around from 2011

I vaguely remember that.

I guess you need to get retailers onboard. And the public probably wasn't aware of how to use contactless technology all those years ago. :rotfl: The time probably wasn't right.

I still haven't used my credit or debit card to make a contactless purchase. I recently gave up my London Travelcard, so I guess my first contactless purchase will be a Tube ride.