This was a mostly quiet week out of Cupertino as Apple managed to snag a lot of attention with what might go down in history as the smallest scale sale in Apple’s history. Shoppers in select stores in the San Francisco Bay and Boston...
For most firms, a quarterly earnings report like the one Apple released earlier this week would be cause to break out the champagne. “We completed our fiscal year in September, and we are proud to report revenue of $234 billion, an increase of 28 percent and...
Apple’s officially made it through Year 1, a time period marked by extraordinary fanfare, debate, and lots and lots of scrutiny. Which, in fairness, is probably what Apple should have expected. First, because they are Apple. And second because Tim Cook rather boldly declared that 2015...
Apple’s week started off in a celebratory manner, as the payments and commerce ecosystem spent much of Tuesday marking the one-year anniversary of Apple Pay. PYMNTS got so excited that we even threw a party — and invited 13 of the smartest and sharpest in the industry to...
So what should they wish for when they close their eyes and blow out the candles? We decided to ask the experts. Check out what 13 of the best and brightest in payments and commerce had to say on the subject. The mood is mostly...
Remember, you heard it here first. “Apple managed to suck all of the power from the mobile carriers — and boy, did they have a lot before Apple came along — and hand it to itself,” Karen Webster wrote a few weeks ago in the...
The mobile payments version of “Keeping up with the Joneses” was out in full force these last few weeks, as Samsung’s impending rollout of Samsung Pay in the U.S. was forced to share its moment in the sun with several instances of big news from...
Payments peeps already know what Apple didn’t say yesterday. For all the hoopla a year ago when Apple Pay was announced, when it came to Apple’s mobile ambitions, it was more or less a chorus of crickets save for the occasional cameo appearance of pay-by-phone...
While the majority of people have heard the expression “always leave them wanting more,” most of them are unaware there is a minor controversy attached to the phrase — specifically about who first said it. About half the time, the phrase is credited to the...
