No Discover for Apple Pay?

[Solomani]

I prefer my Discover Card, best credit card in the USA, imho. In fact, a very recent survey rated it the most popular and loved credit card in the USA (well actually tied #1 with Amex).

http://www.forbes.com/sites/moneybu...nts-at-7-year-low-the-top-rated-credit-cards/

Apple Pay seems like the future .… but it also seems like they (so far) have enlisted the other Big Three credit card services: Amex, VISA, MasterCard. No Discover on the list. Bummer.

I just sent Discover an email, asking them when they intend to join the bandwagon.

 

[impaler]

Didn't know people still used Discover. Hadn't known anyone that used that since the '80s.

Either way, I think they want to target the big three right now...and as they said, that cover well over 80% of US transactions. They said more card providers will come.

 

[Menel]

Correct.

Why go through the hassle to support something that so few use it.

 

[Julien]

Correct.

Why go through the hassle to support something that so few use it.

Total US CC 1,895,834,000

Visa 36%
MC 24%
AMEX 6.5%
Discover 7.2% = 136,500,048
Other (gas, store...) 23.3%

136,500,048 sounds like a decent number to me and more than AMEX.

 

[macbookairman]

It's coming.


https://twitter.com/discover/status/509405306531876865