Hi sifu in this thread,
just asking if there is any new timeline for Apple Pay launching?
Is it still possible to have Apple Pay to launch in this month?

I believed the reason why people in this thread think it's a huge market for Apple Pay it's because we are IOS user. It's echo chamber effect. I used Samsung phone before, and I have friends using Samsung Pay when they launched, include myself. But now most of them changed to e-wallet solution eg: grabpay or tng.

Imagine that how many Samsung user in the market compare to Apple, I just don't think it will be a success project to capture local market although I would like to use Apple Pay.

why GP over AP? Besides the bigger user audience in MY.
AP is automatically supported across almost all devices since iOS 8.1 (which is theoratically ALL devices in today's standard).
Idk about GP but do enlighten me on why banks would prioritise GP over AP?

I've already mentioned the bolded words and yet, reply me with the same thing. Please tell me something else than this.

The main idea of AP and GP is the contactless function and there's not many NFC Android devices are out there while almost all still-iOS-supported iOS devices can use Apple Pay right out of the box.

It's a mixed bag, locally, only really like tech guys/gals knows about SPay and use it. So far I've encountered a small amount of people with Samsung phones actually utilizing it. And most of them are also young peeps. That's for locals anyway.

But with Singaporeans, it's all kind of people using SPay/AP, so far I've only encountered a few with APs but they're not only young peeps, while locally so far I've only met one parent that used their SPay in the public(On a Z Fold 2 5G?), and not much else after that.

I'd wager a guess that most people locally is not really that into using SP/AP, I myself have friends in college that were rocking Samsung phones and only ONE of them even remotely used it, although most of them are using iPhones as well(Not even a tip about AP back then locally and SP only launched like 2 years prior in MY market), so I guess local peeps are just that unaware of what their phones is capable of and is still living in the 2010s era, partially to blame I'd say is probably cause of our education about technology here is MEH at best. One of the best examples I can think of is YouTube, search up "Samsung Pay Malaysia" and there's barely any videos of it, and some of the views is only at 1000s, meanwhile removing the Malaysia part, the top result has half a million views. AP gained traction through the onslaught of people getting iPhones locally, and YouTube fueled that with teases of it in other countries, Singapore as the biggest "hah got you" kinda deal.

Locally people are split between Apple/Samsung and other Chinese brands(Oppo/Vivo/Huawei/Xiaomi/etc etc). And the chinese brands doesn't really offer similar technology except Huawei, and I'd wager that 99% of Huawei users doesn't know they have a wallet app that can physically emulate key cards without any rooting. It's just people not knowing the technology exist and how to take advantage of it, making techies like us frustrated that they had no idea such tech existed.

Another example is *AE, who actually knows about it being WAY better than the *2U app, I certainly didn't at first and my friend introduced me to it. Imagine having to introduce an app through a friend of a friend and not themselves pushing the adoption of it. It's just all done half ass, lazily. Like "Oh btw we have this new thing, but we don't really push it cause idk we're lazy of something". Really do hope with the publishing of AP, people will actually start to understand how much more capable their devices is and not just TikTok consumption devices, can only hope it does and benefits especially enthusiasts like us.

9 feels right to me.... but what a long wait! hahaha it's worse when we know the date is coming

let's hope TnG get scared and follow Suica Japan's example. i noticed a lot of parking spaces already accept CC/DC alongside TnG. if the highways and RapidKL start accepting them too (which I heard they're planning to do), then TnG can bungkus already lmao

Maybe Apple will push iOS15.6.1 to enable ApplePay in some regions.

They don't have to disclose anything to us, by right. What to say/announce beforehand is totally up to them.

Malaysia cannot. They still want u to carry paper boarding pass.

Time to subscribe maybank cc.

other cc or maybank master cc?

I have SC and Maybank and AMBANK which already registered with AP. I find no reason to use them since it doesn't give me any cashback benefit. In the end, priority is cashback first.