Re: Apple Pay and Innovation

On 2014-10-05 04:15, Brent Shambaugh wrote:
> I imagine introducing web payments might enable new business models. How it gains traction is unknown to me.

Brent, my open question was not really about new business models but how you (if you're not Apple) can:
1) Advance technology by a mile
2) Get slowly-moving entities like banks to adopt the technology on a scale where it matters

Anders


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> -Brent Shambaugh
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> Website: bshambaugh.org <http://bshambaugh.org>
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> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com <mailto:anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     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.
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>     Now to the $1M question:
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>     If you're not Apple but rather a non-profit organization with a rather disparate set
>     of members, how do you achieve something similar?
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>     Since I'm not a W3C member I don't have to answer this question :-)
>
>     Anders
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Received on Sunday, 5 October 2014 05:38:46 UTC