Apple Pay isn’t the first attempt at making NFC-based payments with mobile devices commonplace, but it’s certainly the first to gain real traction. At its Spring Forward event today, the company revealed some stats on Apple Pay’s performance. The company says the service is now being used by over 2500 different banks, and is accepted at over 700,000 retail locations. These include a surge of fancy new NFC-enabled vending machines too. These numbers, of course, will be bolstered by the imminent release of the Apple Watch. Apple first announced Apple Pay during its iPhone 6 and Apple Watch event in September; it went live…
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