Optimism is good but I think this is too much. We've got a long way to go before we can call it on par with Apple Pay. Using Apple Pay or something similar is faster and familiar for most user atm, so the first step would be to increase people interest in using Bitcoin as a medium of payment.

Anyway, the news is kinda old isn't it? It takes a snapshot of some tweet on Jan 15th. Looks like another mediocre crypto news site to me.

Edit: just realized OP is suddenly active with posting news from that site. Meh.

there are flaws in everything, we are living in a not-perfect world. but having flaws doesn't make them bad. take bitcoin itself, it is filled with flaws but it is still one of the best things that has been created.
as for LN, OP is just creating clickbaits and advertises them here for traffic obviously but that doesn't mean he is all wrong. LN is not yet on par with anything because size (as in capacity of lightning network) is not the only factor, the number of merchants and payments done is the important part and while we are still not there yet we are on a good path.

The article itself mentions that Apple Pay is faster in day-to-day use than Lightning Network.


That's what ultimately matters most, right?
You can't really use transaction speed data that's being measured in near perfect conditions, to prove the point that LN is faster.

I doubt that Apple pay can't handle the problem if they manage to run into. Apple is one of the biggest company in the world and No.1 in Forbes rankings and with the brand value of 182.8B dollars. I'm sure that whatever problem that they might face in the future regarding its transaction they can find a solution to that.

Obviously they can because they are sitting on world's largest privately held cash reserve. They can handle any internal situation they run into. However, that doesn't mean others won't be able to design a solution!

Slow transaction speed and high fees during higher volume is indeed a problem that LN and only LN is trying to solve! Every system initially runs into challenges and slowly they bridge those gaps. LN also has flaws which the dev team is trying to bridge! That's the reason LN has been delayed several times!

Apple pay should not be the target, rather it should just be a milestone which we will cross eventually! The success of Apple didn't come overnight so we have to be patient!

It was already mentioned that even the scenario with transaction speed is not very realistic, and that they actually get confirmed slower. I'd also like to add that there are other factors by which the Lightning Network is very far from Apple Pay (probably not a year away as some hope). I could not find the information online, but it's clear that the network has way less users that Apple. Even the total number of Bitcoin users is very far from being comparable with Apple Pay. Moreover, there's this problem that with the amount of users growing, the network will get busier, leading to transactions getting confirmed longer and for more money (or so I've read). Lightning Network is an itneresting project, but it seems that it's not a viable long-term solution of Bitcoin's scalability problem.