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Typical of an Android user to mistake that for anti Android though ;)
Actually I hate the pro-Android arguments too. But I use Android because it's the only one that allows me not to buy-in to the entire ecosystem of Apple vs Google vs Microsoft. One can use Android and turn off the vast majority (if not all) of the Google stuff without lessening the experience... and in many ways making the experience better and more personal.
PayPal I don't think will be locked-out, in the same way that Stripe aren't being locked out: https://stripe.com/apple-pay
Payments providers can build on top of Apple Pay... they are not disintermediated by it.
That's an essential thing to understand... the addition of new hardware and software to enable these payments has not removed a single intermediary.
This is why I referred to it as an additional slice being taken out of a transaction, and why consumers ultimately pay more for this. It isn't changing who takes the slice, it's adding another small slice to enable something that has been available in Japan to now exist in the rest of world.
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My point was never an Apple vs Android argument and, in fact, my first point covered Google increasing the proliferation of the technology by upping their game with Google Wallet in response.
My point was that Paypal were going to be squeezed into radically shifting their business model or face destruction at the hands of both.
Typical of an Android user to mistake that for anti Android though ;)