Barron's cover story: Big Tech thought it could upend credit cards — it failed
It was 2013 and the talk of Silicon Valley was about the “mobile wallet” and how Apple and other tech giants were about to muscle into the financial industry’s turf with digital payments.
“I think it’s just getting started,” Tim Cook, the Apple CEO, told analysts at the time, leaving Wall Street thinking of a major disruption.
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