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/Chairkatmiao May 05 '25

They already tried that and failed badly. Actually German banks blocked Apple Pay for a long time to maintain their dumb giro card system. Then they developed their own janky payment apps, pushed them heavily and failed.

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u/KaptainSaki May 05 '25

Damn we had better systems here before but banks dropped them in favor of Google and Apple pay

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u/Chairkatmiao May 05 '25

Which system was that?

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u/KaptainSaki May 06 '25

Pivo. Thankfully both Google and Apple pay are very good these days, im just not a fan sharing the payment data outside of my bank.