从今天开始，有6,100个埃克森美孚燃料站将接受苹果工资。该公司预计该数字将在年中到达8,000个地点，并且其所有美国埃克森美孚和Mobil电台（其中有将近10,000个）将于2016年底付款。
如果这一事实使您有愿景，那就是走到加油泵上并敲击iPhone或Apple Watch以启动付款，那么当我第一次听到新闻时，这就是我的脑海。但是埃克森美孚（Exxonmobil）正在通过将其支持纳入其SpeedPass+ iPhone应用程序来实现Apple薪酬。当您仍在汽车上时，该应用程序将对您进行地理位置，以确定所在的站点。然后，您可以选择泵并使用指纹来验证您的付款方式。您的收据也将出现在该应用程序中，如果车站提供的话，您将可以购买洗车。（就目前而言，您在iPhone上完成所有这些操作，但是当然，最终有可能在Apple Watch上进行。）您在泵上需要做的就是选择一级气体，然后填充油箱。
除非您对在加油泵周围游荡的莫名其妙的喜好，否则将内置在应用程序而不是泵的苹果付款可能是最吸引人的方法：一方面，它可以让您付款而无需挥动钱包或在车外挥动钱包或电话。但是，对于埃克森美孚公司来说，这种方法比使用泵内内置的NFC技术所涉及的任何东西要容易得多。
Instead of telling gas stations to replace or upgrade pumps–which would have involved $30,000-$40,000 of expenses and major disruption to operations–ExxonMobil is piggybacking on two years’ worth of work it’s already invested in its Speedpass+ app, which has been undergoing testing in five markets. Adding support for Apple Pay to the iPhone app, which also directly supports a variety of cards, was the easy part. All the stations have to do is install a software update on their payment system. “They’ve been kind of begging us for this program,” says ExxonMobil’s W. Bryant Russell, who demoed the app for me at an Exxon station in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The simplicity of this approach is why the company expects to bring Apple Pay support to so many Exxon and Mobil stations–which are owned and operated by 350 independent wholesalers–so quickly, in the first wide-scale deployment of Apple’s payment system by a fuel company. (When Chevron去年宣布了一项付费的苹果付费试点计划，它在总共两个站点上发射。）
“我们从消费者那里听到了他们想要付款的选择，”罗素告诉我。“苹果工资将它们带给他们混合。”目前，埃克森美孚（Exxonmobil）尚未宣布通过Google的Android Pay为Android用户做类似的计划，尽管Russell表示它总是在探索新的选择。