I'm surprised at how few retail websites have implemented Apple Pay for checkout. It's a pleasure to use a site that implements this and when they do I'm happy to buy directly from them instead of through Amazon. Sites that make you manually enter all your shipping and credit card information while navigating thru last minute check out popups is a big reason why it's so much more convenient to buy the same thing thru amazon.
There are a lot of things we can do to improve the web and make it more resilient to big tech. Optimizing web sites for rapid checkout with modern Apple and Google pay mechanics is one of them.
Edit: Some of you correctly point out that this is actually just trading reliance on one big tech entity for another. I agree and would love to see a better approach for convenient online payments but that future seems very far off. Ironically, Apple and Google Pay can help smaller merchants level the playing field with Amazon today while we await a better payment future.
"... make it more resilient to big tech..." by moving from Amazon to Apple or Google?!?!?
Also: If I have to type in my credit card info I am less inclined to impulsive decisions thereby buying less useless stuff.
@mike In Canada, nearly all credit card POS terminals are Apple Pay compatible. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a single one that I couldn’t use it.