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Apple Pay

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94 articles accelerating

Apple Pay has appeared in 94 articles since 2014-12. Coverage peaked in 2024Q4 with 5 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Apple, iPhone, NFC, PayPal.

Articles
94
mentions
Velocity
+100.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+1.500
velocity change
Sources
39
publications

Coverage Timeline

2022-08-18
Wall Street Journal 2 related

Loup Ventures: 75% of US iPhones now have Apple Pay activated, up from 50% in 2020 and 10% in 2016; Apple says 90% of US retailers now take Apple Pay

It took longer than expected for the iPhone to become a wallet.  But the patience of Apple is slowly paying off.

2021-01-16
Asymco

A survey estimates that Apple Pay users reached 507M worldwide in September 2020, about 50% of the total iPhone userbase, adding ~66M users from September 2019

IN a recent release, Apple reported that “more than 90% of stores in the US, 85% of stores in the UK, and 99% of stores in Australia accept Apple Pay.” Tweets: @counternotions and @brianroemmele Tweet...

2018-05-23
TechCrunch 9 related

eMarketer: Starbucks' mobile payment service had 20.7M US users in 2017, over Apple Pay's 19.9M and Google Pay's 9.3M, and is expected to keep outpacing them

outpacing Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay. http://www.axios.com/... Eric Friedman / @ericfriedman : Hearing that 23m+ people use Starbucks mobile app is huge, especially ahead of Apple Pay - htt...

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

Apple Pay has appeared in 181 Techmeme articles since December 2014. The biggest stories include Apple rolls out Apple Pay Later to select US users, for online and in-app purchases on... and Apple says it will no longer offer Apple Pay Later, the BNPL service launched in the US.... Frequently covered alongside Apple, iPhone, NFC, PayPal, and Samsung. Coverage has shifted toward enterprise, funding themes and away from developer.

Key Moments

2024Q3developer +100pts
2024Q4developer -80pts; regulation +40pts
2025Q1developer -20pts; regulation +60pts

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