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Discover has announced an agreement with Apple that will allow Discover cardmembers in the U.S. to make contactless payments in participating stores through Apple Pay, the way to pay, using iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch.

“As the mobile payments landscape matures, Discover remains committed to giving cardmembers secure options for using their cards and mobile devices,” says Diane Offereins, Discover’s president of payment services. “Discover’s focus on simplicity and value for our cardmembers aligns well with the way Apple Pay makes purchases easy and convenient.”

Apple will announce the financial results for its fiscal second quarter today. A conference call with analysts and the press will be held at 2 p.m. (Pacific) time.

KGI’s Ming-Chi Kuo, one of the most reliable analysts, has his Apple numbers ready, as noted by “9to5Mac” (http://tinyurl.com/nbcub2l). The analyst projects iPhone, iPad, and Mac shipments to be 58.2 million, 10.1 million, and 4.5 million respectively. He also estimates that Apple Watch shipments are currently at 631,000 units.

The Alchemist Guild has released iCloudStatus for Mac OS X Yosemite. It shows a status icon for iCloud Drive in your menu bar so there’s no more digging around in the Finder to see when your files have been uploaded.

When you add files to iCloud Drive from the Finder or other apps iCloudStatus detects the changes and show you how much progress has been made, then notify you when the transfer is finished. Additionally a history log of all transfers and the date is recorded so you can verify previous activity.

iCloudStatus costs US$1.99. It’s available here: http://tinyurl.com/osv59pk .

A poll by SurveyMonkey of 505 people conducted since April 8 found that just over 4% said they were “extremely likely” or “very likely” to buy Apple Watch, reports CNBC(http://www.cnbc.com/id/102617561).

About 74% said they were “not at all likely” to buy the smartwatch. Three percent said they planned to buy the watch on the first day of sales (which is today).

“Look, it’s early. I think that’s what the poll results say. People didn’t have a lot of great reasons” to buy it, SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”