Nowadays the required features have largely stabilised and mainstream platform providers have emerged. The evaluation criteria for the selection of a mobile payment platform is starting to converge to a standard set and analysts have started plotting suppliers on their two-dimensional grids. That is why I believe that the question is not about a specific platform or which solution is best, but rather how will the solution fit into a bigger payment eco-system.
Nowadays it is more important to consider how easily can the payment platform integrate with others, what are the network payment services that will become available. Considerations like inter-operability, under-writing of payments, the width of acceptance etc. are much more important than what the system will do. The game has changed from a platform discussion to an eco-system consideration.
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You beat me to this :)
I was going to write a blog post on those who still live in the past and believe in spreading FUD about other products but fail to realize that the ecosystem and market have matured.
One fundamental rule in innovation is that over time, core competence ALWAYS becomes a threshold competence.
Those who still believe that the game is still about features or reputation will probably find out too late that it is about the ecosystem and interoperability.
Payment systems can never succeed when closed. Openness is what makes a model repeatable and scalable. Those are also essential qualities for any product or player who wants to transcend to MobileMoney 2.0
The biggest advantage that mobile banking offers to banks is that it drastically cuts down the costs of providing service to the customers.
For service providers, Mobile banking offers the next surest way to achieve growth.
How to use mobile banking services from my mobile...? I am not having any high-end mobile, can I still use mobile banking services??
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