Apple Launches Tap to Pay on iPhone in France

[svish]

Glad to see it expand to more countries

 

[DaveFlash]

I guess so.
Anyway, I had a pretty silly experience as I forgot my wallet in Europe (not used to travel or carry a wallet with me was the culprit I think), so wanted to get some money from an Apple Pay ATM, as they appear to exist (Wells Fargo).
However, they never worked with Apple Pay: I tried many!
Anyway, a friend sent my wallet to the States, and done! ;-)

contactless ATM-withdrawals are as much dependent on the software on said ATM's as your bank supporting it on their cards and network and for your account.

For example, in the Netherlands, banks and main ATM-provider "Geldmaat" (which is operated as a joint venture by the three biggest banks here) only just started the slow process of upgrading the ATM's to accept contactless and Apple Pay withdrawals, it simply wasn't a priority here due to the fact that we had full contactless support at 99% or close 100% of stores stores since at least 2012-2013 and most Dutch had received a contactless card by the end of 2014, also, cash is only still used in 20-30% of payments here.

So a lot of factors to consider...

 

[RealE]

I was in the UK for over 8 months and never, ever, touched any "real" money: always used my iPhone or Apple Watch.
Coming in USA a month ago, cannot pay in many locations with what they in the USA call Apple Pay, and IF it was possible, I had to go to the counter, do the NFC move, but still had to wait, and sign!!! a piece of paper.
My god, what an idiotic '60's way of payment that is.
Note this is in the country which "invented" the iPhone and "invented" Apple Pay??? Really?

Then moving to Peru, and happily everything is normal again, like in Europe, being able to pay really everywhere with the phone or watch, without having to sign with a stylus on paper ("Yuck!!!")

Seriously! Europe is so far ahead of us on this and it is nice. Maybe one day we can have nice things here too.

 

[garyjones027]

I was in the UK for over 8 months and never, ever, touched any "real" money: always used my iPhone or Apple Watch.
Coming in USA a month ago, cannot pay in many locations with what they in the USA call Apple Pay, and IF it was possible, I had to go to the counter, do the NFC move, but still had to wait, and sign!!! a piece of paper.
My god, what an idiotic '60's way of payment that is.
Note this is in the country which "invented" the iPhone and "invented" Apple Pay??? Really?

Then moving to Peru, and happily everything is normal again, like in Europe, being able to pay really everywhere with the phone or watch, without having to sign with a stylus on paper ("Yuck!!!")

There are some businesses in the USA that ended during the pandemic and after the pandemic because these businesses did not have the money to upgrade their old credit card machines from 1980s.