Re: Apple Pay and Innovation

I imagine introducing web payments might enable new business models. How it
gains traction is unknown to me.

-Brent Shambaugh

Website: bshambaugh.org

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Anders Rundgren <
anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:

> Going back to my plentiful threads about the importance of "Pushing the
> Envelope"
> I can't help mentioning that Apple Pay requires iPhone 6.   One might say
> that
> this fits Apple's business model which is true, but equally true is that
> if they had
> tried a fall-back scheme for the older devices, the banks wouldn't have
> bothered
> with the fancy stuff => NO INNOVATION.
>
> Now to the $1M question:
>
> If you're not Apple but rather a non-profit organization with a rather
> disparate set
> of members, how do you achieve something similar?
>
> Since I'm not a W3C member I don't have to answer this question :-)
>
> Anders
>
>