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[New] Since India is far from having NFC Terminals in every other Kirana stores, and with the increasing number of iPhone users in India, Apple might implement Pay in a different way.
Next year, Apple plans to provide vetted and trusted security researchers and hackers with dev iPhones, or special iPhones that provide deeper access to the underlying software and operating system that will make it easier for vulnerabilities to be discovered.
If Apple had to remove WeChat from its AppStores around the world, Apple's annual iPhone shipments in China could fall between 25 to 30% and sales of other hardware could fall between 15 to 25%.
Many organizations are experimenting with how to transition from a linear to a circular business model: Apple recently announced a goal of a closed-loop supply chain, H&M and Ikea have committed to becoming circular companies by 2030, and Google recently released its circular strategy.
Projections show that Apple Pay and Google Wallet will continue to vie for the top spot into 2019 and beyond, but Android Pay and Samsung Pay still have their share of supporters.
Other U.S. companies that might make a retaliatory short list include Amazon Web Services, which has a cloud services joint venture in China; Apple, which has huge markets and supply chains in China; and Microsoft, which has major markets, research and development, and supply chains in China.
Taiwan's PCB makers in the supply chain for Apple devices will see their shipments for new iPhones not peak until the fourth quarter in 2020 as Apple has confirmed its iPhone 12 lineup will debut later than normally scheduled in September.
The U.K. spending limit for contactless card payments is to increase from £30 to £45, meaning iPhone users will soon be able to pay for more expensive shopping bills using their smartphones in stores where limitless Apple Pay transactions are not supported.
The mobile payments market is forecast to grow to $4.69 trillion by 2025 from $1.13 trillion last year, driving growth for services such as PayPal, Samsung Pay, Apple Pay, AliPay and WeChat Pay.
Apple Pay is projected to be a leading digital wallet with 227 million users worldwide, while Google Pay is expected to reach 100 million users in 2020.
LiveChat's customers can use Apple Business Chat to give their customers an opportunity to easily contact businesses, receive real-time support, access products, and services or make purchases using Apple Pay.
Apple and Google would then plan to provide software updates to more than two billion active devices across the world using their software program by the end of the year.
Later this year, users will no longer need to install an app to opt in to the contact-tracing effort: Apple and Google say proximity tracking will be built directly into phones' operating systems in the coming months to help ensure broad adoption.
Apple and Google are releasing an API for apps to use in May, but eventually, later in the year, exposure notification will be introduced at the operating system level to ensure a broader adoption, which is necessary for contact tracing to succeed in cutting down on the spread of COVID-19.
New Form Factors for Smartphones: 2020 will see the launch of innovative form factors supporting smart devices, including AR glasses, microLED and stretchable displays, and graphene batteries from global leaders such as Apple, Facebook, Samsung and Amazon.
Apple Pay leads OEM battle: Apple Pay will account for a 52% share of OEM Pay transactions by value, up from 43% in 2020.
The number of countries launching contact tracing apps is expected to rise even further from next month following news of the ground-breaking collaboration between Google and Apple to add a tracing capability into their operating systems.
Allpay is committed to Mobile payments and will be launching updates to their Apple and Android versions early next year as they continue to help income collection with the most convenient payment methods to suit customer spending preferences.
Imagine a Google or Apple or Microsoft twice the size it is today, exceeding a quarter of a billion dollars of revenue a year.
The $2.1 billion deal will give search and advertising giant Google the capability to take on Apple and Samsung in the crowded market for fitness trackers and smart watches.
The plan announced by Google and Apple will accelerate efforts to launch contact tracing apps around the world.
Google will pay $2.1bn to acquire Fitbit, the second largest company in the wearables market, inserting itself into a world increasingly dominated by Apple - and continuing the mass consolidation of consumer technology by the Big Three corporations; Amazon being the third party.

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Last updated: 13 September 2020