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by intrasight 1495 days ago
The Economist recently discussed. To demonstrate the success of UPI, the mentioned that panhanders now routinely present an UPI barcode instead of a pan. I doubt that Apple Cash will have the same success.
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If apple makes it fee-free and paperwork free even for small businesses, and they make an android compatible app, then it will be successful and will take over from banks and MasterCard/visa.

Otherwise it'll remain a tiny proportion of the overall payments industry.

Beggars in Mainland China have been presenting QR codes (for Alipay and WeChat Pay) for years now.

https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/beggars-with-qr-co...

link?