Perhaps because Apple charges per transaction. My guess is that Samsung Pay doesn't?
Or if they do, they charge less. Samsung Pay has also been the first to make it into certain markets such as its home country South Korea, Mexico or India because of Samsung’s proprietary MST technology, which supposedly allows for Samsung Pay to be used through the magnetic stripe reader on terminals that lack an nfc reader or (more commonly) have it turned off. And I say supposedly because in reality, Samsung Pay works poorly over MST most of the time. Yesterday I had an experience at a restaurant here in Mexico where the waiter said cell phone payments wouldn’t work on their terminal. I convinced him to let me try (using apple pay, though I never actually told him that name) and my payment worked fine. I presume his previous experience must have been with someone trying to use Samsung Pay over MST and getting a read error, which seems to happen fairly often. There’s also a chain of convenience stores in the country (Oxxo) where several people have reported having a hard time using Samsung Pay (can’t say anything about using apple pay at those stores, though, because their nfc readers are still turned off despite that they announced they would turn them on during the first quarter of 2019).
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This is crazy. I just landed in Amsterdam this morning and have used it twice. I used it last fall when I was here as well.
Yeah because apple pay arriving to a country just means it will finally be available to use with cards issued by at least one of the country’s local banks. For travelers coming from other countries (or anyone else with access to a supported card), apple pay has been accepted worldwide from day one.
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What do you mean by a company or shop not accepting Apple Pay? There's no such thing, as far as I have experienced. I can use Apple Pay virtually anywhere. I mean, it's true that 'on paper' no Dutch place supports it as Apple Pay isn't officially supported in the country. But it still does work everywhere. At least, I've been able to use it even in places where one could imagine it does't work.
There is indeed such a thing as stores that don’t accept apple pay. They’re rare in Europe, but more common in countries like the US, Mexico or South Korea where NFC contactless payment isn’t accepted everywhere because contactless cards were never a standard form of payment (that’s why some stores in the US still announce the rollout of support for apple pay: in reality they’re just rolling out contactless payments).
As for the Apple store in Amsterdam, Apple seems to think that contactless payment is only apple pay so it is a common practice for them not to accept any form of contactless payment at their stores located in countries where they haven’t rolled out apple pay. Even if every single other merchant in a country already accepts contactless payment, as is the case in the Netherlands, Apple stores will not accept it at all until after apple pay support is officially rolled out to at least one bank in the country. Stupid, but that’s Apple restrictiveness at its best.
