Your zip code leaves many of us envious!!

John


> On Jan 5, 2016, at 7:44 PM, tom holloman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Maybe. But we don't want a Macy's or big jewelry store on this island. I'm 
> going to Maui in couple weeks and will go in some stores it says have Apple 
> Pay to check it out. 
> 
> On Jan 5, 2016, at 2:38 PM, John Robinson <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>> WOW Tom, it's so good it knows where the business are going to be before 
>> they exist!   
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Jan 5, 2016, at 6:05 PM, Tom <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Careful with Payfinders. It shows three places that accept it within 8 
>>> miles of my house and none even exist on the island. Hotel Molokai is there 
>>> but no Tantes. I walked down and they never heard of Apple Pay. 
>>> <image1.PNG>
>>> 
>>> On Jan 3, 2016, at 2:12 PM, John Robinson <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> O.K., it’s an obsession, when news like this hits I have to get it 
>>>> out…inquiring minds want to know and so do the merchants.  I will send 
>>>> this to a few businesses after I send to my groups.   I have almost 
>>>> totally stopped shopping at Kroger as Meijer accepts ApplePay and Kroger 
>>>> doesn’t.  There are two terminals at Panera Bread that accept ApplePay, 
>>>> the third doesn’t so I will wait if the next opening is at the register 
>>>> that hasnt’ been configured for our secure payment system…it’s a great way 
>>>> to let the merchants know we are serious about their adoption.
>>>> 
>>>> If interested there is a new App that will help us find shops that accept 
>>>> our payment of choice, it seems it’s being well accepted and immediately 
>>>> generating a large number of users…More descriptive info. is below the 
>>>> story from the App I just downloaded.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> New PayFinders app for locating Apple Pay merchants reports 750% increase 
>>>> in users in two days
>>>> 
>>>> A new app designed to crowdsource an interactive map of businesses that 
>>>> accept Apple Pay just reported adding 12,673 new merchants in North 
>>>> America, 95 percent of them being small businesses. In parallel, its 
>>>> developer reported that the new app's users have increased an incredible 
>>>> 750 percent over the past two days, indicating a lot of interest in Apple 
>>>> Pay.
>>>> 
>>>> <15365-11645-ApplePay001-l.jpeg>
>>>> 
>>>> PayFinders helps users locate merchants who accept Apple Pay
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Brian Roemmele, the PayFinder 
>>>> <https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pay-finders/id1045145678?mt=8> app's 
>>>> creator, announced 
>>>> <https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/681138441619255296> the jump in 
>>>> Apple Pay interest on Twitter earlier today, observing that "Christmas was 
>>>> good to the iPhone 6 series and Apple Pay adoption." On Christmas Day, 
>>>> Roemmele had earlier noted that 'indirect activation data suggested that 
>>>> the Target and BestBuy $100 off Apple Watch promotion may have doubled 
>>>> [the number of Apple Watch] devices in use.'
>>>> 
>>>> Apple is quickly expanding Apple Pay's reach beyond the U.S., with the 
>>>> service launching in the UK in June 
>>>> <http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/07/13/apple-pay-launches-in-uk-with-support-from-250k-stores-8-banks>
>>>>  and more recently in Canada 
>>>> <http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/11/17/apple-pay-goes-live-in-canada-adds-two-uk-banks-coming-to-australia-on-thursday>
>>>>  and Australia 
>>>> <http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/11/18/apple-pay-launches-in-australia-with-limited-card-retailer-support>
>>>>  last month. It is expected to begin operating in China 
>>>> <http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/17/apple-pay-officially-launches-in-china-with-unionpay-partnership>
>>>>  early in 2016.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I downloaded the app and here is what it gave me within 13 miles of my 
>>>> location…Awesome!
>>>> 
>>>> <IMG_2620.PNG>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> To get a list I find the closest at the top of the list
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> <IMG_2621.PNG>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> By zooming in near my location the stores nearby are shown in greater 
>>>> detail….
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> <IMG_2622.PNG>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> This is going to be helpful, and something Apple should have included 
>>>> within their Maps app from the beginning…..
>>>> 
>>>> 
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