I believe that Apple bought out the company behind this technology, but I wonder if something like this will ever come to Android phones.
It’s something that I’d use for when I do craft fairs and car boot sales without investing in a dedicated reader.
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Several countries have this, across device types. It works great.
I’d say I made my first contactless payment on android in 2016.
Uh, that’s how it is generally done? And it works independent of device. Did Apple manage to make this “theirs” in the US?! Because I remember this is a very old Android 2/4 level tech where you exchange contact info by “bumping” fists with your phone in them. 😅 It was dropped by Google and eventually evolved into this I suppose.
Though I will also say that most people would intuitively distrust swiping their phone over another phone. They expect a dedicated payment terminal otherwise it feels like someone trying to steal their card data.
I’m not sure if you’re referring to just the functionality of being able to pay by tapping the phone, but there’s Google Pay, which does exactly that and is mostly accepted wherever apple’s solution is accepted. It works in any Android phone with NFC.
Skimmed through the article quickly and yeah that’s what I interpret as well, this is just NFC Payment, and has been a thing on Android devices for years already.
Pretty sure it actually predates Apple’s version too…
I’m not quite sure why, but I would feel somewhat uncomfortable swiping against a phone.
How can you be 100% sure it’s not being used to clone your card details.
It’s a completely illogical way of thinking because it happens with normal POS machines anyway so I truly can’t explain my irrationality.
Use crypto like monero since crypto is a push system instead of a pull system.
Very well trolled. 👏 Bravo young man, bravo.
Apple is famous for making Walled gardens not letting anybody else play.
Android has tap to pay today. It had it before Apple did.
Apple absolutely will not allow Android into the Apple pay Network though
