"For starters, not everyone will use a smartphone. Other analysts raised questions about whether credit card companies will move away from the current profitable system in the developed world. Other concerns include the potential susceptibility of (devices) to hackers, market fragmentation, and lack of interoperability of mobile finance systems due to the many different platforms being developed and implemented, and questions about whether consumers will feel comfortable storing the intimate details of their financial lives in the cloud," according to Pew.
If you've been paying attention, the above and also the results of this study by Consumer Reports would seem to reinforce each other.
Is it possible that much of the constant mobile shopping, finances and/or currency in the cloud/cashless society related bloviations of ebay, paypal, and John Donahoe (among others) will prove to be just that?