In his post Steven Gao discussed the disabling of NFC (wirelessly share information, eg. payments), and the possibility of promoting another type of phone wireless payment method. As we know form the iPhone 6 rush not long ago one of its new marketing ideas was to pay using Apple Pay. It is essentially tapping you iPhone make a simple payment. The tap-payment was widely promoted over the past year by Interac Flash and is now a generally accepted payment method in stored such as Starbucks and Futureshop.
Paying your morning cup of coffee with a tap of your debit card, convenient and simple. Paying your morning cup of coffee with an iPhone 6, really? That flashy? Paying with our phones raises many issues. Phones can malfunction, break, or get stolen. I mean come on, paying with your phone is great? Speaking as if we never lose our phones. For the above reasons maybe most people would think twice before letting their phones take the role of their wallets.