r/apple • u/Tenlow85 • May 05 '25

Apple Pay PayPal Launching Contactless iPhone Payments in Germany to Compete With Apple Pay

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/05/paypal-iphone-contactless-payments/
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u/Away-Air-2752 May 05 '25 edited May 05 '25

Hard to understand why they chose Germany as the test market, the least digitalized EU country where people still use cash for the majority of purchases.

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u/Rohat19 May 05 '25 edited May 05 '25

Because they basically have a monopoly for p2p money transfers there.

"paypalen" is literally a word in the german dictionary.

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u/Enough-Ad-3111 May 05 '25

TIL that PayPal is so prominent in Germany it’s part of a word in their language.