Q: Discover Card?

The terms of use of this forum prevent us from speculating on when Apple may or may not do something in the future.

Anyway, the Discover Card folks are probably more responsible than Apple for what they may do in the future.

Here is the latest on Discover. See Discover Financial Services Is Jilted by Apple, but Don't Give Up on Discover Yet. Looks like it's about getting merchant adoption first but Discover is in talks with Apple and will be on board eventually.

Hope this helps.

Hello Jassy,

The reason Discover is slow to adopt Apple Pay is because of their prior arrangment with PayPal. Back in 2012 Discover and PayPay joint their efforts to allow customers to access their PayPal accounts at the cash register by entering mobile phone number and PIN or using a physical card (that will still tap into PayPal account) at the merchants that do not support PIN enabled terminals.  I bet terms of that partnership prohibited Discover joining competitor in mobile payments- Apple Pay. Since PayPal did not actually make any movement in developing mobile payment infrastructure, Discover now is considering leaving prior commitment and participating in Apple Pay. But this will probably require some time for Legal departments of both companies to hash details out. Hope it helps.

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I didn't know Discover had a deal with PayPal.  I too use Discover and look forward to them joining Apple Pay.

http://m.imore.com/how-to-quickly-link-itunes-credit-card-apple-pay

Follow the steps on the link, it will allow u to use Discover card with Apple Pay.

You do realize that the card provider has to support Apple Pay before you can add it. The link you provided just shows someone how to go about the process of entering a card. This still does not change the fact that a particular provider does not support the process. You cannot add a card that is not supported.

Discover will be accepted Fall 2015

http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-pay-to-accept-discover-cards-starting-this-fall/