Apple Pay has overtaken the Starbucks mobile app to become the top mobile payment app in the U.S., and marking the first time a generic mobile payment app has led Starbucks in the domestic market, according to a report by eMarketer. 

Apple Pay will have 30.3 million users in 2019, representing more than 47% of mobile payment users, while Starbucks will have 25.2 million users, representing 39.4% of mobile payment users, according to the report. 

"Apple Pay has benefited from the spread of new point-of-sale systems that work with the NFC signals that Apple Pay runs on," Yory Wurmser, principal analyst at eMarketer, said in a press release. "The same trend should help the Google Pay and Samsung Pay, but they will continue to split the Android market."

Total spending on proximity mobile payments will approach $100 billion in the U.S. this year, with the average user spending $1,545 using mobile payments, a 24% increase from a year ago. 

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