Monday 3 November 2014

Forget Apple Pay – the master of mobile payments is – Starbucks

7 million mobile payments per week (90% of all mobile payments in 2013) & growing by almost 50% every year – Apple Pay still has some way to go to catch that.

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/forget-apple-pay-master-mobile-payments-starbucks/ / Apple Pay’s checkout counter Apple CEO Tim Cook mobile payment services companies mobile payments business Starbucks quarterly earnings recently latte transactions mobile device 7 million mobile payments per week 1 million credit cards registered launch buy a cup of coffee merchant-agnostic system in-person paying by phone coffee Wall Street analysts CEO Howard Schultz mobile payments stores growing by almost 50 percent annually 90 percent of all mobile payments tech Google Apple PayPal well-funded startup Square tech industry consumers physical wallet smartphone-based Google’s NFC mobile wallet mobile payment app offer offering coffee delivery order by phone e-commerce company pay coffee place order payments card smart phones proprietary payment option plastic card loyalty programs CurrentC scanningscan in-app QR code checkout counter loyalty program partnerships mobile payment companies value rewards program programme /