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Slightly OT: I remember seeing related trends with hotel bookings. Mac users tend to choose higher segment hotels (apparently):

https://business.time.com/2012/06/26/orbitz-shows-higher-pri...

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IIRC, the highest end hotels were some of the first commercial entities to install Apple Pay terminals when it was released. It took years for normal, regular stores that serve the general public to add that feature.

I'm not sure that's correct. EU and Australia have been using contactless terminals before Apple Pay. Still, most hotels I go to want the actual card number (usually taken at checkin) that they put on hold. Payment can either be charged to that card number on file at check out or you can present another card.

I recently saw someone denied check in when they only had their phone at the Shangri La in Sydney a year or so ago.

Thinking back, the only time I've used contactless to pay for a hotel was at the Six Senses in Fiji. Four Seasons & Ritz Reserve usually still do the whole folio presentation thing at check out. Most of the standard corporate hotels (Hyatt, IHG, Marriott) I've been to have let you check out in their app to the card on file.

I know Apple worked with various high end hotels to deploy their phone/watch as a key offering. Going to be a long time before that’s in Holiday Inn or La Quinta.

> I'm not sure that's correct. EU and Australia have been using contactless terminals before Apple Pay.

That’s not what I was talking about. I was referring to Apple Pay early adopters per the context of the hotel comment I was replying to up above, not to the ubiquity of contactless terminals, which predates Apple Pay by quite a long time, as you correctly observe.

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