

"It's so good to see you all," Cook said from a stage set up on a lawn next to Apple's ring-shaped headquarters, as an audience of several thousand developers cheered in the morning sunshine. The tech giant touted new features and capabilities being built into the operating systems running iPhone, Apple Watch and more, along with a speedy new MacBook Air computer driven by a second generation of its custom chip.Īpple chief Tim Cook and his team showed off coming innovations during a keynote presentation at its first developers conference to be held at its campus in the Silicon Valley city of Cupertino – and the first in-person version of the gathering since COVID-19 struck.
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Read the full version here.Apple CEO Tim Cook (center) holds a newly redesigned MacBook Air laptop during the WWDC22 at Apple Park on June 6 in Cupertino, California.Īpple opened on Monday its first in-person developers conference since the onset of the pandemic with chips, maps and a way to delete precipitously sent messages, but was mum on any virtual reality offerings.

WeChat targets those aged 23-29 years, as they are the main force for driving mobile payment in China.Ī version of this appeared in China Daily on August 8. During the Spring Festival of 2013, WeChat Pay successfully used the Chinese tradition of sending red envelopes containing money as blessings to promote mobile payments to the masses. The generalization of no cash payments was originally boosted by WeChat Pay, according to a report by. Its earnings contributed 84% of Tenpay’s mobile payment market share in Q1 this year. WeChat Pay is an in-app payment feature of Tencent’s WeChat, which means it was launched by both companies in 2013. The firm still cites Alipay as the leader in the mobile payment market, occupying 63.41% of the marketshare in Q1 this year, while Tencent Holdings Ltd’s Tenpay takes 23% of the market share.
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The number of offline stores cooperating with WeChat Pay in its campaign increased from 80,000 last year to 700,000 this year, following 2015’s success.Ĭhina’s third-party mobile payment market scale is experiencing a year on year increase of 111%, according to Chinese research firm Analysys.

WeChat Pay’s main rival, Alibaba’s Alipay, plans to spend over $15 million (100 million yuan) on rewarding its users.įrom July 20 to Octover 31, Alipay’s users can receive a direct discount of less than $150 dollars (999 yuan) every time they use Alipay to make payments to offline stores.īoth of the offline mobile payment initiatives by WeChat Pay and Alipay were launched last year.

In addition to this, they have the opportunity to get a direct discount on payments. When users use WeChat Pay to make payments on August 8, they can spend the accumulated money rewarded to them over the previous seven days. Chinese based third-party payment platform WeChat Pay’s mobile payment has rolled out its “No Cash Day” campaign this week to boost mobile payment rates, reports China Daily.įrom August 1-7, the first payment made of the day by WeChat Pay’s users to any offline store (with a WeChat partnership), could have rewarded the user with a random cash prize up to $133 dollars (888 yuan).
