Methinks that all that lovely warm air being generated by the Apple Marketing juggernaut will eventually cool once MasterCard and Visa get their tokenized digital online/mobile offerings, “MasterPass” and “Visa Checkout”, up and running, for surely the participating banks won’t be paying M/V an 0.15% cut for those services, will they? …

Carl Icahn: He apparently thinks that he is going to make a killing on the spin off of eBay’s clunky “PreyPal” operation—only in his dreams, methinks …

Square: Square is simply one more payments intermediary. Apart from its innovative card reader for merchants on the move, Square apparently has little to offer, and it still has not yet been able to make a profit …

Google: If Google (yet another merchant intermediary) thinks that it can ignore NFC—as eBay’s cretinous Johnny Ho once suggested (“NFC = Not For Commerce”)—Google too is becoming delusional …

Bora Chung: Leaving Apple for eBay. Now there is a suicide mission if ever there was one; and, all indications are, the PayPal "spin off" will be "in name" only—assuming that you can believe a word that comes out of the eBay executive suite …

“PayPal is going to be the dominant payment provider on eBay for a long time and we want it that way, and the separation will ensure that it is that way.”—Devin “Little” Wenig (19 Nov. 2014)