Ireland is the 14th country to receive Apple Pay; Taiwan and Italy could be next

After three months, another country was contemplated today with the arrival of the Apple Pay: a Ireland. The country becomes the 14th to receive Ma's mobile payments service, which originally debuted in 2014.

Ireland Apple Pay

The banks that support the service in Ireland are KBC and Ulster Bank, with the Visa and MasterCard flags, in addition to also operating with Boon, a prepaid system. The first stores to accept Apple Pay for there include Aldi, Amber Oil, Applegreen, Boots, Burger King, Centra, Dunnes Stores, Harvey Norman, Lidl, Marks and Spencer, PostPoint, SuperValu and several others (check the website for the full list) ).

In addition to Ireland, the countries which have already received service from Apple are Australia, Canada, China, Spain, United States, France, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Russia, Singapore and Switzerland. Rumors suggest that the next location to be Taiwan, already with seven banks in the country with permission from the Financial Supervision Commission. In addition, the Apple website at Italy it has also been modified with a notice from Soon.

Apple Pay is available for iPhones SE, 6, 6s, 6 Plus, 6s Plus, 7, 7 Plus, or an iPhone 5 or later when paired with the Apple Watch. The operation of the service also extends to applications and web pages, accessed from an iPhone, iPad or MacBook Pro with Touch ID.

And we Brazilians are still waiting

(via MacRumors: 1, 2)