Apple Pay, the payment system that allows users of an iPhone 6, 6 Plus and Apple Watch to pay in stores, is coming to the Netherlands. The payment system works from October only in the United States.
When the payment system of Apple is exactly in the Netherlands will go to work, it is not yet known, but that would, within a reasonably short period are going to happen. Also which parties will be participating, is still unknown. One of those parties is in any case a Visa, so let a spokesperson on behalf of the Dutch branch of the payment provider know Tweakers.
Apple Pay is the payment system that the manufacturer Tuesday suggested. Users can have their cards to scan, then the iPhone or Apple Watch via nfc and the payment can be carried out. The fingerprint via Touch ID works as security, while the telephone and the terminal under water tokens to exchange to authorize the payment. Apple Pay works with credit cards, such as debit cards, such as those common in the Netherlands. Want Apple a large market share in the Netherlands, cooperation with banks is necessary to debit cards, for example, ING and ABN-Amro to work with the payment system.
Visa works in Holland together with Vodafone SmartPass; that works just like Apple Pay will soon be via payment terminals from Visa and that includes railway stations, Schiphol airport and in the Amsterdam Arena. Vodafone said in a response opposite Tweakers request, that it has nothing to announce about Apple Pay. “We follow market developments with interest”, said a spokesman. The Dutch department of Mastercard know nothing about Apple Pay in the Netherlands. “We would be able to adopt as MasterCard in the USA are already on board, but more than that we do not know.”
Update, 17:49: Daniël van Delft, the Netherlands of Visa, leave in a note know that there is in any case a bank or financial institution with the launch of Apple Pay in the Netherlands. “It is still too early to say how it exactly will look like. We want Apple Pay as soon as possible in the Netherlands. I would be there tomorrow willing to pay if it could, but now I can really not exactly say when it will be.”
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