Spain’s popular payment platform Bizum is preparing to enter physical retail stores in a move that could reshape the country’s payments market and increase pressure on international card providers such as Visa and Mastercard. Starting May 18, Bizum Pay will allow customers to make direct account-to-account payments at shop counters using near-field
Next step is not indirectly requiring a google account to use.
Good point. It would be good if you could use Bizum directly from the bank app. Revolut for instance does not ask you to have a Google account to use their app.
You still need google to use the bank app. If there’s an app, it need google’s blessing. Specially after the end of the year when google will lock all phones into walled gardens like apple.
Still … . I’ll take good, incremental wins over nothing or pure enshitification any day
If you go that way, you need Google to even use Android.
It sucks, but until we get actual wide-spread Linux phones there’s not a lot individual consumers can do.
I keep an eye on the future Graphene phone with Motorola, but even then as long as the vast majority of users will use Android/iOS, banks don’t have pressure to support other systems.
Graphene and Lineage don’t need google and both are android.
Do banking apps work on them though? I had previously heard that banking and government sites are often glitchy and or don’t work at all on linux.
Yes, as long as you install google shit. The problem it’s not if they work or not, they do. The problem is that all banking apps are only available on google play, and you can only install from google play with a google account and Gapps installed in your phone.
On PC I’ve been using banking and government sites for years on linux without any problem, what can give you any problem there is the browser.
I have two extra phone for android auto and those pesky banking and depot-apps. With fakeaccounts, on isolated networks, stripped of everything strippable.
Motorola phones are actually pretty barebone and come from supercheap to cheap-ish.
My main driver is graphene until my ancient pixel finally dies, then I’ll switch to one of the Linux-phones.
What the hell? The portuguese MBway has been doing this for years now. Why is the article referring to this as unheard of in Europe?
Same in Italy. We have Bancomat which is ubiquitous since 1983 in every store, and since 2013 we have Satispay. This is hardly new in the EU.
Maybe the britishwire doesn’t think of the Balkans as properly European? :p
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