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Macintosh News => iPhone/iPod/iPad News => Topic started by: HCK on August 31, 2017, 04:05:17 pm



Title: Apple now supporting WeChat payments in Chinese App Store as Apple Pay struggles to gain traction
Post by: HCK on August 31, 2017, 04:05:17 pm
Apple now supporting WeChat payments in Chinese App Store as Apple Pay struggles to gain traction

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/q2015_web_china-ceos_v2_1536x1536_original.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500&h=750)</div><p>While Apple has been trying hard to push <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/apple-pay/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apple Pay[/url] in <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/china/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China[/url], offering a range of <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/07/17/apple-pay-china-competition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discounts and rewards[/url], it doesn’t appear to have met with much success to date. Its market share in the country has been described by iResearch as ‘negligible.’</p>
<p>One big reason for that is the popularity of WeChat Pay, and Apple has now given in to the inevitable and started accepting the payment service for local App Store purchases …</p>
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