Google is continuing the expansion of Android Pay in Asia Pacific after the mobile payments service went live in Australia today, its most significant launch in the region to date. Android Pay initially landed in Asia with a launch in Singapore last month, and today it is in Australia, which has a population of around 22 million people. According to data from Kantar, Android represented around 64 percent of smartphones sold between March and May this year, with iOS on 36 percent, so Australia should represent a good sized market for Android Pay. (Singapore, by contrast, is heavily skewed towards iOS and a population of just five million.)
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Tech Crunch
