[zkoch]

As a quick correction, the current Web Payments API (PaymentRequest) that is making its way through the W3C process is at https://w3c.github.io/browser-payment-api/. It's not the one from web-payments.org.

What Apple has announced so far is actually quite similar to PaymentRequest. Apple is a part of the Working Group, so this isn't a huge surprise. I am hopeful that the two implementations will converge rather quickly over the next few months. Apple emailed the public working group list expressing this hope as well [1].

For full disclosure, I am an editor on the PaymentRequest spec, and I work on Chrome.

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-payments-wg/2016...