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1. verslu+1B[view] [source] 2025-04-13 09:42:13
>>moelf+(OP)
I love GrapheneOS. The biggest downside is that Google integrity API block wireless payments in Google Pay. All Dutch banks now advertise to install Google pay for wireless payments. I've tried asking Google to support GrapheneOS but they told me to do a feature request. Which I did and got no reply to. I've contacted the consumer market authority and made a formal complaint since Google and Apple share effectively a contactless payments duopoly and decide which OS distributions get access. Those are closed source and usually bundled with a lot of spyware. I also explained how the Google integrity API might affect banking availability in the future (and already does for some banking apps). They took it very seriously and I hope to hear from them in the future.
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2. palata+YG[view] [source] 2025-04-13 10:58:19
>>verslu+1B
> All Dutch banks now advertise to install Google pay for wireless payments.

That sounds like a very big mistake to me. And a missed opportunity: in some countries, banked work together to develop their own systems. People can send money to each other and pay everywhere with a small app that is not BigTech from the US.

I think there should be such an app in every country; you don't want your payment system to fully depend on US companies.

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3. dzikim+eL[view] [source] 2025-04-13 11:57:56
>>palata+YG
Banks do that for p2p payments and e-commerce (like iDeal mentioned by sibling comment or BLIK in Poland).

For physical transactions there's barrier of hardware and network effect - everybody has card terminal. Users expect near 100% acceptance for them to use payment method daily.

If you consider creating own NFC payment app instead of Google/Apple Pay - that's actually possible, but more expensive and often disliked by the users due to inability to easily switch between cards issued by different apps.

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4. codeth+3O[view] [source] 2025-04-13 12:32:03
>>dzikim+eL
> If you consider creating own NFC payment app instead of Google/Apple Pay - that's actually possible

Is it? Last time I checked, Apple & Google were also interfacing with banks on the server side, i.e. banks had to integrate with Apple/Google specifically. I'd love to be wrong, though.

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5. dzikim+lS1[view] [source] 2025-04-13 22:45:58
>>codeth+3O
It's optional if you want "add to wallet button".

That's not related to ability to create own app - on both ios and Android you can access NFC hardware directly (on iOS it's limited geographically), and send card data as you see fit - Google & Apple do nothing in such case.

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