Apple plans to add additional new services to Apple Pay and Fitness+

The Cupertino-based firm plans to improve Apple Pay (a mobile payment service) as well as Fitness+ (a service focused on health and fitness), with new additional features that may be coming soon, Mark Gurman revealed in his weekly newsletter. In particular, a company may launch a service to better manage purchases made through its payment platform. He is also “exploring” a plan “like Instacart”, as detailed by a journalist from bloomberg.

The service that Apple is preparing for its mobile payment system may be called “Apple Pay Later” and will allow pay for purchases in installments like some credit cards. In this case, the user will only need to pay for the product they want to finance with their card added to Apple Pay and select the Buy Now, Pay Later option (Buy Now, Pay Later). Later, Apple could offer the option to split payments into two weeks with no interest or several months with interest.

On the other hand, a feature “like Instacart” (a platform for ordering food and healthy food at home) that Apple is studying will allow buy healthy foods like veggies, fruits, veggies, etc. through Fitness+. These purchases will be integrated “with the Health app’s nutritional data,” Gurman said. Thus, one would need to know the calories or other data of the various foods purchased.

While this might be the ideal option for finer control over the user’s power, all indications are that this won’t happen any time soon. In fact, Apple may drop this feature. due to its low profitability and low profitability.

New details about the hardware subscription program Apple is working on

Mark Gurman also took advantage. Newsletter weekly to provide information about the new hardware subscription program. Remember that this will allow you to purchase an Apple product such as an iPhone, Mac or iPad for a monthly fee. Journalist from bloomberg guarantees that contracting this plan can be as simple as activating a subscription to some Apple services.

However, the hardware subscription program it may take a little longer to arrive. Mainly because Apple will focus its efforts on launching “Apple Pay Later” first. Gurman assured that it will be available at the end of 2022 or, at the latest, at the beginning of 2023.