We're not talking about the end result, we're talking about the security of a specific method of payment.
If we were discussing how insecure IE 6 is and how it can get you hacked, then the fact that using Chrome to directly give your info to a shady site can have the same result (get you hacked), doesn't say anything for the relative security of Chrome vs IE 6.
That's right. ApplePay does nothing to mitigate the credit card fraud problem. And until banks get better at verifying a stolen card isn't being loaded into ApplePay the problem is actually much worse.
ApplePay does a huge amount to mitigate the credit card fraud problem for it's users. The fact that it can be used to process cards stolen others is irrelevant.
If we were discussing how insecure IE 6 is and how it can get you hacked, then the fact that using Chrome to directly give your info to a shady site can have the same result (get you hacked), doesn't say anything for the relative security of Chrome vs IE 6.