Apple has agreements with credit card companies Visa, MasterCard and American Express reached on a mobile payment system that at the same time with the iPhone 6 ge lwa site is going to be. The payment system works with nfc and would pay with the iPhone in shops.
There have been going longer rumors about the arrival of a mobile wallet from Apple. According to Recode, the company from Cupertino now has an agreement with, among others, American Express reached. Bloomberg adds Visa and MasterCard to this list and according to this site, there are also the agreements reached with major banks and retailers, though it is not clear what names it comes.
The expectation is that Apple payment system on 9 september along with new iPhones is going to introduce. According to rumors the new smartphonegeneratie an nfc chip, which enables contactless payments in stores. For the authentication the system would make use of Touch ID, the recognition is for fingerprints in the home button of the iPhone 5S and also the iPhone 6 models will be integrated.
At the last quarterly figures, Apple ceo Tim Cook announced that there are 800 million iTunes accounts have been created, and that the majority of them are linked to a credit card. This would make Apple an interesting party for credit card companies to work with. Also other companies to try mobile payment systems roll-out, such as Paypal, Google, and banks, but have trouble with a broad-based platform to create.
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