Originally Posted by
YariGuy
Had to go buy an Apple accessory at the IAPM Apple store in Shanghai today. Normally I'd never do this but there were exigent circumstances, let's just say.
Tried 3 times, but they could not accept Apple Pay, which was backed up by an Apple Credit Card, on an iPhone. Had to pay with Wechat.
Serious decoupling going on.
I will say though that Apple Pay was accepted at a dive bar called the Shed in Shanghai, so this is on the Apple store. Shame on you, Apple.
Apple Pay is not a payment method per se. It depends on the underlying card. So it could be MasterCard/VISA/Amex or UnionPay. As we all know the acceptance of these are highly divergent in China. Now if your underlying card was a UnionPay card issued in China and the Apple Store didn't accept it that would be surprising.