Google was one of the first companies to enter the mobile payment space and Apple is one of the last.Google Wallet has been available to Android users for years, although it’s never really caught on in the way that Google hoped. Apple Pay has only been available less than a month but is already the most popular mobile payments platform around.
Additionally, a massive law change coming in 2015 will all but require retailers to update their payment terminals to support tap-to-pay with EMV (Chip and PIN) cards. Most merchants – unless they’re being blackmailed by QR-code scanning competitor CurrentC – will probably throw in NFC support when they update their terminals. Within less than a year, most U.S. retailers will support Apple Pay and Google Wallet.
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