http://www.coindesk.com/payments-veterans-apple-pay-bitcoin/A common perspective that emerged is that while Apple Pay is not exactly innovative, it will encourage mainstream consumers to embrace mobile payments a step that needs to take place if bitcoin will ever be more broadly adopted as a currency.
I dont think its ultimately going to be that transformative from a fees perspective or that it has the same transformative opportunities as bitcoin, Binick said. Its just another player in the value chain rather than eliminating folks from the value chain.