Three mobile payments services will be vying for your attention this fall. Google, Apple, and Samsung are all ready store your accounts and cards in phones for easy checkout while shopping just about everywhere with a compatible terminal. Samsung Pay, however, is able to tout itself as the mobile payments service that works in more stores than any other. And tonight during the 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, Samsung ran the very first stateside television advertisement for Samsung Pay to promote its advantage over Apple Pay.
The ad, which you can watch below, shows how easy it is to be shopping (almost) anywhere in the United States with Samsung Pay handling the checkout process. The song “My Favorite Things” plays as Samsung's devices show Samsung Pay at work before being interrupted by Apple Pay getting rejected. Someone with a Samsung device then steps in and the music resumes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmT0WGVjT4MSamsung also ran an ad for its dual-edge display during the Emmys.
Agreed with Visa/Master/AMEX thing while all we have to carry a pocket full of cards (ID, license, social security card -yes, in EU-) but the whole idea is to forget all about this and use the phone for everything. Hope that day arrives before I die, or better said, before I can’t do things by myself…
It’s even easier to use my Visa debit card, and it’s accepted everywhere. I don’t leave home without it.