Lee has found that overall both Apple Pay and Google Wallet both perform well but she notes that Apple has been much smarter about both promoting its app and on making sure its users know how to take advantage of it on their devices.
“Google Wallet doesn’t seem to have caught on, most likely due to slow carrier adoption (many of them preferred to push Isis/Softcard, their own mobile wallet solution, instead) and the fact that many phones require that you download the Wallet app,” she writes. “Apple Pay, on the other hand, works with Passbook, an app that’s preinstalled with every new iPhone. “
In terms of functionality, meanwhile, Lee found that Apple Pay was slightly easier and more intuitive to use than Google Wallet, but not by that much.
“Payments made with Wallet definitely require a bit more attention and processing time than Apple Pay, but it honestly wasn’t significant enough to matter to me, at least most of the time,” she writes
