Apple is working with Visa, Mastercard and Amex contactless payments
According to Bloomberg, Apple is at the presentation of iPhone 6 will show a new mobile wallet service that will work with the technology NFC. Agreement on cooperation in the field of mobile payments were made between Apple, Visa, MesterCard and American Express. Recall that the presentation of the new iPhone 6 is expected next Tuesday September 9th. Officially, Apple is no data available about the iPhone 6 does not comment. According to Reuters, the company acts as supplier NXP Semiconductors NFC-chips for iPhone 6. With them will be contactless payments for purchases via iPhone 6. also reported that the new system will work paired with a fingerprint scanning technology Touch ID, which appeared in the current generation iPhone.
Note that although the major technology companies such as Google, Nokia, Apple, PayPal and others are actively developing contactless payment technology, the main users of these technologies - the buyers and sellers - have shown little eagerness to work with them. Even in the United States, where technological innovations historically appear first contactless payment technology are not used everywhere. At the same time, experts say that Apple - a kind of a trend-setter and the appearance of any technology in its mobile products, the introduction of greatly accelerated.
It was in his time with the touch screen mobile, embedded shopping applications, 64-bit mobile processors. Now this list can be added contactless payment technology. Potentially, Apple can combine this system with accounts of iTunes, of which there are 800 million. This gives the new system automatically base of 800 million people, which is impressive even by the standards of giants such as Visa or MasterCard .
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