Discover has tweeted that its cards will be joining Amex, Mastercard and Visa in the Apple Pay service, allowing electronic versions of its cards to be stored in Passbook for contactless payment using the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch.
[tweet https://twitter.com/discover/status/509405306531876865]
Apple has said that Apple Pay will be available for recent older phones – the iPhone 5, 5S and 5C – from next year – if you buy an Apple Watch.
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Doh! Maybe you should have picked up the phone before yesterday Discover. You could have made it onto that Keyote slide,
I just love their response to that tweet.
Thank God… Discover… The Faygo of credit cards.
Discover has stopped issuing Zip cards which were NFC stickers for your phone case and NFC credit cards. At least that’ is what they told me in April when I tried to order one. So them backing away from NFC is probably the reason they were late to the party. I wonder if using your camera to get your card details will work for the discover it cards since all the details are on the back of the cards.
Bis will need to quickly roll it’s token system around the globe for Apple lay to be successful worldwide. How well is NFC terminals deployed throughout Europe and the rest of the world? In the US it makes since to roll heavily roll out vpVisa’s new token system since EMV cards are not commonplace like the rest of the world. Adding more NFC terminals is cheaper then a complete EMV rollout in the US. Even though I think most the NFC terminals include EMV readers.
It’s time for card security to be taken seriously in the US. I think Apple will be able to succeed where Google a wallet and others has failed.