I just finished watching the new features for iOS and OS X. The closest they came to mentioning canada was when they pulled up the poutine recipe. No Apple Pay for Canada and not even the news app. What the heck Apple!!
I just finished watching the new features for iOS and OS X. The closest they came to mentioning canada was when they pulled up the poutine recipe. No Apple Pay for Canada and not even the news app. What the heck Apple!!
Ya it sucks. We have the infrastructure for it, and I did hear previously that it was coming "soon" to Canada, so it must be the government delaying it.I just finished watching the new features for iOS and OS X. The closest they came to mentioning canada was when they pulled up the poutine recipe. No Apple Pay for Canada and not even the news app. What the heck Apple!!
Ya it sucks. We have the infrastructure for it, and I did hear previously that it was coming "soon" to Canada, so it must be the government delaying it.
Lol try being in Australia. We are almost the last to get anything on ANY device
Lol try being in Australia. We are almost the last to get anything on ANY device
Apple has to come to an agreement with the banks, not the government. There was some issues with security that the banks wanted addressed before implementing it. The rumour a month or so ago was the Apple Pay would launch in Canada sometime in the fall.
You do realize that the government has a very large impact on these kinds of things too, right? It's not just the agreements with the banks...go read some of the articles about why the UK was so delayed in getting Apple Pay up and running there. And from what I understand, many of the same regulations affect Canadians as well. This is a conglomerate of things putting a delay on it's release, not any one in particular.
I'm not blaming the banks completely, however in this case it doesn't appear govt regulation is the problem. Canadian banks have a lot of power and sway in this country, since our system is not as fragmented as say in the U.S.
Here is a link to a great Globe and mail article explaining what issues the banks are working to resolve with Apple.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...e-pay-reports/article24004338/?service=mobile
Money securities are absolutely a function of the government and banks working in conjunction with each other...it's just the basic way consumers are protected from banks screwing them over since the purpose of the banks is money handling. In this article you can read that the hold ups are financial transaction security and privatized fees from the banks themselves. I'd venture a pretty healthy guess that the security side of that involves the appeasement of both the bank entities and the government branch tasked at overseeing such (in the U.S. it's called the FDIC).
Mobile payments aren't regulated by the Canadian federal government as of yet. They are planning regulation later this year but right now it's in the hands of the banks.
Mobile payments aren't regulated by the Canadian federal government as of yet. They are planning regulation later this year but right now it's in the hands of the banks.
It's Canada man. Retail and shopping wise, we never get the best deals. It's just weird since nfc and paywave is just about anywhere in Canada. I'd love to have apple pay and leave my cards at home.