There were many disputes over Apple Pay. Since the announcement last month and still ongoing debate is whether this technology is demanded by consumers? Of course, this debate is mostly prevalent because the service itself is not yet launched to the masses and no one knows how it will operate the whole system is in reality. In any case, it seems, have already appeared Apple Pay at least one fan who was himself, Bill Gates.
Of course, Gates does not sing the praises of Apple, as you might think, but it actually shares the view of relatively cupertino Apple Pay. He believes that the idea is really good, because it will help to create a special ecosystem, where all mobile payments will be much in demand. Ultimately, this will benefit both the Apple, so in the long term, and Android, and Windows. Gates recommended that developers of these platforms as quickly as possible to do the construction of similar payment ecosystem-based NFC. At the same time he noticed that his experiment Apple will help to ensure the feasibility of the development of this technology and in the process get a fairly large audience due to exclusivity deals.
The biggest advantage of Apple Pay, according to Gates, is a fingerprint scanner and additional security provided by this sensor. Although Microsoft founder had not thought Touch ID something fundamentally important for the mobile market, it recognizes that a cell phone that is able to identify its owner, in today's world is a very useful thing. Moreover, such a system can benefit not only private clients but also businesses. He also believes that in the near future, similar solutions should be available to all representatives of the market, whether it's Apple, Google or Microsoft.
So, does this mean that fingerprint scanners are somewhere on the way to develop for Windows Phone or Windows 10? Not so long ago there were already rumors about a possible support Touch ID in the update 8.1 for WP, but it turned out that this was not to be. According to Gates, Microsoft should have its own identification technology to work with devices on a platform developed by the company, but at the moment fingerprint scanners are the best solution in this area.