{"id":1028245,"date":"2026-08-12T08:26:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028245"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:58:15","slug":"what-apple-pays-india-launch-could-mean-for-iphone-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/12\/what-apple-pays-india-launch-could-mean-for-iphone-users\/","title":{"rendered":"What Apple Pay\u2019s India launch could mean for iPhone users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Apple\u2019s biggest services missing from India is Apple Pay, and with rumours of its imminent launch in the news cycle, it only raises hopes for millions of iPhone users. While Apple remains mum on the matter, industry analysts suggest that Apple Pay could kickstart the company\u2019s goals of stepping into India\u2019s vast fintech sector. Expected to make its debut by late September or October, analysts say that Apple wants to target India\u2019s rapidly expanding base of premium smartphone users and credit cardholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Apple\u2019s biggest services missing from India is Apple Pay, and with rumours of its imminent launch in the news cycle, it only raises hopes for millions of iPhone users. While Apple remains mum on the matter, industry analysts suggest that Apple Pay could kickstart the company\u2019s goals of stepping into India\u2019s vast fintech sector. Expected to make its debut by late September or October, analysts say that Apple wants to target India\u2019s rapidly expanding base of premium smartphone users and credit cardholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028279,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028245\/revisions\/1028279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}