People who compare Apple Pay to Bitcoin as though they're direct competitors are idiots that either don't know much about bitcoin or don't know much about Apple Pay.  Or they're just click-baiting with titles to get traffic to their sites/threads.

Apple Pay is to Bitcoin as a Car is to Fuel.  Would you talk about how some car is better than a fuel?  Google Wallet is also another type of 'car'

Stop looking at Apple Pay as the enemy.  What if Apple decided to allow bitcoin transactions through Apple Pay?  What if Google Wallet followed with that adoption?  

Imagine how massive that would be.  

Yes, in the meantime, Apple Pay will steal a bit of thunder from Bitcoin as far as retail transactions go, but Bitcoin was never that close to being in retail locations at such a scale anyway.  I think we need NFC payments on a massive scale before bitcoin can ever hit that many retail locations.  

NFC used massively nationwide, will most definitely be followed by bitcoin used massively nationwide via NFC.  The whole QR/scanning is a joke and too much of a hassle.  Bitcoin is too early and needs to wait for proper hardware to be established first.

Keep trashing Apple all you want, but they're seriously paving the way.