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Apple Wallet is already in macOS, but Apple Pay is only in Safari
There's no wallet on macOS; Safari does enable you to use Apple Pay on your Apple Watch or iPhone to pay for things on websites.
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-wallet-apple-pa...
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For situations where laws allow for sub-standard wages, such as restaurant wait staff, I agree with you. It's not really an option, it's exhausting, there's no point. For situations that aren't codified into law like that, it can more legitimately be modulated according to how the service made you feel, from zero to "keep the change" to a couple bucks to sky's the limit. The former should be solved by abolishing tipp…
> laws allow for sub-standard wages, such as restaurant wait staff The law does not allow for sub-standard wages, however. If everyone stopped tipping today, wait staff would get the same minimum wage as any other job.
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Thanks, I was actually pretty confused by this at first glance. As a non-Apple-user I've never personally used the feature, but I still thought that stuff like Tap to Pay was a somewhat large selling point for the Apple Watch. So for a second I wondered if I had just been drastically misunderstanding how that worked for a long time and had somehow never actually checked/verified that iPhones/Watch could do that.
I use it nearly every day and definitely for almost every purchase I make. I no longer carry around a wallet now that digital IDs are a thing and have only had 1 situation in the last 6 months where I needed a physical card because they had TTP disabled on their terminal.
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Apple Wallet is already in macOS, but Apple Pay is only in Safari
There's no wallet on macOS; Safari does enable you to use Apple Pay on your Apple Watch or iPhone to pay for things on websites.
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No software company wants to sell hardware outside of Apple. They only do so when forced to support their services. Software scales with a marginal cost of $0 and is much less messy. Before smart phones and generic hardware was a thing, I worked at a company that wrote software for field services (“sending people places to do things”) we had to resell and maintain custom ruggedized windows mobile devices, mobile sate…
No software company wants Apple to be anywhere near their business either. Apple greedily takes 30% and owns your customers. Apple is bad for business. When they come to your industry, be afraid.
Yes, Apple is huge multinational company that pays a little taxes as it can legally get away with; however, as of 2017, it was the largest tax payer in the world: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/11/the-facts-about-apple...
Three interesting implications from this press release: - Stripe as the first user of the SDK vs Square: For any small business starting this spring, I can't think of a reason why they wouldn't use and iPhone+Stripe to start off. Zero hardware cost (assuming they have an iPhone), no need to wait for hardware delivery. - NFC will be coming to the iPad. - The ability to keep the same hardware but switch payment network…
There are established people in this space with very easy to setup solutions, like Zettle (PayPal) for example - who also offer connected receipt printers, barcode scanners, tablet/phone terminals and integrations with ecommerce, accounting and so on. The only real advantage I can see Apple having is if they charged a lower transaction fee, but it's going through Stripe, so no - 2.9 % + 30c versus 1.75 %. I don't thi…
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I am surprised Apple didn't make this a closed system and compete with Square for small businesses.
I am surprised Apple didn't make this a closed system and compete with Square for small businesses. Apple isn't Microsoft. When was the last time Apple created something consumer facing from scratch instead of using industry standards or market leaders if they exist? They generally don't explicitly compete with commodity businesses unless there's something unique they're attempting to accomplish. They do stuff just b…
The M1 is also customer facing, vs partnering with Intel to make it
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It competes with anyone selling point of sale hardware. I think Square falls into that camp, no? I wouldn't want to be in that space right now. I don't see how this doesn't usurp a big chunk of their market since it isn't even a decision between buy this or buy that, but buy that or just use the thing already in my pocket.
This was my initial thinking, but then I think most businesses won't want to use a phone as their payment platform. My reasoning is that when I go into a business and I tap the Square terminal, I am assuming that terminal belongs to the business, because what individual would have their own square terminal. If the person who is ringing me up has an iPhone, and says "just tap this", there is a part of me that is wonde…
"use their iPhone to seamlessly and securely accept Apple Pay, contactless credit and debit cards, and other digital wallets through a simple tap" other digital wallets = crypto?
Yes! WWDC should be pretty interesting this year: https://9to5mac.com/2021/12/28/comment-tim-cook-said-apple-i...
I know you could theoretically use Zelle/Paypal/Venmo, but it seems much easier to just be able to accept a card payment. Plus, I wouldn't have to give strangers my email, phone number, or username, which would be needed for those payment methods.