Re: Presentation to Web Payments IG

On 10/18/14 6:40 AM, Joseph Potvin wrote:
> Market  Share :
>
> http://www.businessinsider.com/android-ios-market-share-data-and-apples-iphone-6-2014-8
> http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/06/android-still-growing-market-share-by-winning-first-time-smartphone-users/
>
> Given your friend's comment that "Several of my friends in the payment 
> business here in XXXXX helped Apple design Apple Pay", s/he is 
> apparently a little too influenced by all the unnecessary money that 
> Apple users spend on their devices:
> http://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2013/11/15/android-dominates-market-share-but-apple-makes-all-the-money/
>
> No argument from me that Apple devices tend to be more elegant, and 
> also tend to instill more brand loyalty than other makes. That's fine. 
> The rest of the world treats such devices as practical commodity 
> items. Open standards enable consumers to easily do comparison 
> shopping and to jump ship to other brands in an open market. Apple 
> will continue to resist any open standards that make comparison 
> shopping and brand jumping easy for their market segment.
>
> The W3C community should not lose sleep over the continued efforts by 
> Apple to loudly distinguish itself from the open standards movement.
>
> Joseph

I am not convinced that Apple is anti open standards. We have to 
distinguish packaging (what they are excellent at) from open standards 
compliance (which they use in this packaging).

Apple has made a clear signal in regards to providing open interfaces 
into this various subsystems. Thus, aren't we better of, at this point, 
not jumping to conclusions about their pending payments segment inflection?

Apple (IMHO) isn't a problem or foe, in regards to Web Payments. In 
fact, they'll more than likely turn out to be quite the opposite.

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