Apple Pay’s Canadian Plans

Apple Pay is heading north, with a Canadian launch planned for early 2015, according to sources cited by 9to5 Mac.

The same sources note that Apple and Canadian launch partners  are now working through the planned promotion and advertising of the platform geared for March of this year, which may indicate the Canadian could be paying the Apple way as early as Q1 2015.

Further, the blog noted that Apple is currently targeting that timeframe very heavily with a strong preference to be out to the Canadian public sooner rather than later.

Apple Pay’s proposed international expansion has been a topic of conversation for several weeks, as rumors of job postings all over the world have been surfacing in Europe, the Middle East, India and Asia.

Other reports pointed to expansion into the U.K. as the more likely target for international expansion, with recent job postings through Apple indicating that they are looking to fill rolls in the British Isles.

March is also the timeframe currently scheduled for the launch of Apple Watch, though that recently has been in some doubt. Apple’s new wearable will be integrated with the tech and allow iPhone 5 users to make use of Apple Pay. Apple’s U.S. webpage for the device says the Watch will launch in early 2015, while other regions, including Canada, simply state “available in 2015.”