Apple Pay a success: CEO

Today’s televisions haven’t advanced much technologically in the last 30 years, Cook said. “So I think there’s a lot to be done here.”
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Yeah, and cars haven't advanced much technologically in the last hundred years either? WTF is this guy smoking. So todays HD LED tv's are no better than the old black and white cathode ray tv's? Please... Then their Iphone 6 is not much better than a Nokia 3310 either.
 
Yeah, but how many stores are prepared to accept Apple Pay ?
 
rrh said:
Yeah, but how many stores are prepared to accept Apple Pay ?
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THIS: So a billion people buy into your currency as a means of payment. That doesn't determine success. The amount of people prepared to accept 5 magic beans as payment - now that is what plots success, although that would still not be guaranteed. Success will only determined by the number of actual transactions, not activations.

EDIT: Feel free to call me Captain Obvious.
 
furpile said:
Yeah, and cars haven't advanced much technologically in the last hundred years either? WTF is this guy smoking. So todays HD LED tv's are no better than the old black and white cathode ray tv's? Please... Then their Iphone 6 is not much better than a Nokia 3310 either.
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Compared to mobile phones and devices tv's haven't advanced as much. He didn't say they haven't advanced. Just not much and that there is still a lot of room to advance and therefore is a business opportunity. Tv manufacturers have not really being leading. They are being dragged forward by companies offering streaming services over the internet. Smart tv has been badly implemented and has serious privacy issues.
A friend of mine gave away her tv the other day. She uses her desktop and iPad to watch what she wants when she wants. All the news is on the web anyway. She watches BBC news and Sky news on an iPad. Channel 4 and ITV also make their programs available for 2 weeks online. This is the UK. The US is no different.

You are looking at his comments from a South African perspective and would have a point. It's very different in the US and UK
 
GreGorGy said:
THIS: So a billion people buy into your currency as a means of payment. That doesn't determine success. The amount of people prepared to accept 5 magic beans as payment - now that is what plots success, although that would still not be guaranteed. Success will only determined by the number of actual transactions, not activations.

EDIT: Feel free to call me Captain Obvious.
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Tell that to the cellphone companies. If their figures are to believed....everyone in SA has 4 cellphones
 
furpile said:
Yeah, and cars haven't advanced much technologically in the last hundred years either? WTF is this guy smoking. So todays HD LED tv's are no better than the old black and white cathode ray tv's? Please... Then their Iphone 6 is not much better than a Nokia 3310 either.
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A better quality picture, bigger screen and size is not advancement. That is just linear progression
 
mercurial said:
Some major retailers are not keen on supporting Apple Pay
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Of course... tiem will tell.

Cook is just saying the launch went well

US retailers often havent even rolled out Chip in PIN POS terminals.
They have to do it by end 2015 so they will get Chip in PIN and NFC terminals

Then to make Apple Pay and Google Wallet work it will require some intgration work.

Wil they do it?
Who knows. Google havent done that well in encouraging merchants to adopt NFC. Maybe Apple will tilt the balance.
In this case the combined weight of Google and Apple helps.
They actually have some common interests since the systems wont be mutually exclusive..

Do I hope that Apple Pay and Google Wallet will do well? Yes.

Will the merchants try and go their own way and dis intermediate the banks? Some will.
Will they succeed? I doubt it.

Its going to take years.
Any bloggers/journos predicting the demise or the success of either Apple Pay or Google Wallet are jumping the gun
 
JStrike said:
A better quality picture, bigger screen and size is not advancement. That is just linear progression
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Well that is how technological advances work, they build on previous efforts. It's not very often that there is some revolutionary new technology. What you mention here is the same that happened with cellphones in the last 10 years, better quality screen and picture, its not something new. The tech used in today's tv's are significantly different to 30 years ago, that's why i commented on it. Sure, since LCD screens came out they just refined it and improved the quality, but that didn't happen 30 years ago. People also keep TV's a lot longer than cellphones, so they don't have the turnover to support the same rapid advances as with cellphones.
 
furpile said:
Well that is how technological advances work, they build on previous efforts. It's not very often that there is some revolutionary new technology. What you mention here is the same that happened with cellphones in the last 10 years, better quality screen and picture, its not something new. The tech used in today's tv's are significantly different to 30 years ago, that's why i commented on it. Sure, since LCD screens came out they just refined it and improved the quality, but that didn't happen 30 years ago. People also keep TV's a lot longer than cellphones, so they don't have the turnover to support the same rapid advances as with cellphones.
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Today's cellphones are far from a linear progression. Cellphones used to be a tool to make calls in a mobile fashion. These days, this is the most minor of things they do.
There used to be a linear progression (Nokia 3310, 5110 etc). Then there was big advancement, and now we have linear progression again
 
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Today's cellphones are far from a linear progression. Cellphones used to be a tool to make calls in a mobile fashion. These days, this is the most minor of things they do.
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Indeed, that's why I said in the last ten years. What major advances have there been between Iphone 1 and 6? Sure, its faster, better screen and so on, but those are incremental improvements. In the same way that LCD panels have only improved incrementally, but its a major innovation compared to CRT.
 
furpile said:
Indeed, that's why I said in the last ten years. What major advances have there been between Iphone 1 and 6? Sure, its faster, better screen and so on, but those are incremental improvements. In the same way that LCD panels have only improved incrementally, but its a major innovation compared to CRT.
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CRT to LCD resulted in thinner screens. Not really much advancement there at all.
LG (and Samsung) seem to be exploring how to advance television, but largely failing. I would argue the biggest changes to television have come from Apple and Netflix. But even there, they have had limited impact, and haven't advanced television that much. Each has only tackled a few small facets of a much bigger problem
 
This morning:

Major retailers turn down Apple Pay

Now:

Apple Pay A SUCCESS!!

BlowJobs may be gone, but his [-]bull****[/-] reality distortion field lives on.
 
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