It's widely rumored that Apple will introduce its own mobile payments solution on September 9 with the release of the iPhone 6. But Apple isn't the first date to the mobile payments party, so what makes analysts - and Apple for that matter - so confident they're solution will indeed succeed where so many others - Google Wallet, Isis (now Softcard), PayPal - have failed?

There's actually three solid reasons, and we're here to tell you them.

In this episode of the Mind Of The Geek Podcast, we outline the three reasons Apple's mobile payments system will succeed where so many others have failed. And speaking of successes and failures, we switch gears slightly and talk about which video games will succeed, and which video games will fail, this holiday season.

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