Although not a direct competitor to Apple Pay, Pichai also mentioned that Google and Samsung would work closely to see how the two companies could align the also newly announced Samsung Pay (an Apple Pay competitor) with Android Pay.
Recent news such as PayPal?s acquisition of Paydiant, Samsung?s acquisition of LoopPay and the subsequent announcement of Samsung Pay, as well as Google?s announcement of Android Pay are all supportive of our expectations for continued share gains for mobile transactions. As of the end of 2014, iOS devices continued to account for the majority of mobile transactions at 66% of the total, but this was down from 73% a year ago. Android is taking share from Apple, and according to Adyen, Android mobile will likely hold the largest share of transactions for all devices in the latter half of this year with current share at 25%.
