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Apple Pay is Set to Launch in Germany

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Apple Pay is about to launch in Germany. Banks such as HVB and Bunq this morning sent out emails to customers announcing their imminent support for Apple's mobile payment system in the country.

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Apple Pay is "coming soon" according to Apple's own regional German website, which lists supported banks and cards, including boon, comdirect, Edenred, Fidor Bank, Hanseatic Bank, and Vim Pay. We'll update this article as soon as we can confirm that Apple Pay is operational in Germany for end users.

Apple Pay support in Germany has been rumored for some time, while Apple has been working to establish deals over fees and other factors with German banks.

During a July earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook also confirmed that Apple planned to bring Apple Pay to Germany in late 2018.

(Thanks, Lukas!)

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Bug-Creator said:
That list of banks excludes the vast majority of of Germans atm.

So unless Apple can get the likes of Sparkasse,Volksbank,Postbank and DeutscheBank to join this won't get far.
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I know lots of people who switched banks in order to use Apple Pay (e.g. N26).
The old Banks have no idea what a young generation wants – those banks will eventually die out.

BvizioN said:
That's what I thought. I have used to pay at Frankfurt airport just a few months ago.
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Dude NFC payment is not limited to Apple Pay.
We have wireless credit cards for quite some time in Germany already (and thus the terminals). But as I said earlier, no bank supports it yet. So if you're German and have a German bank you cannot put your credit crd in Apple Pay.
Wergez said:
I cannot believe it. Finally after all those years.
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Quasselstripper said:
Dude NFC payment is not limited to Apple Pay.
We have wireless credit cards for quite some time in Germany already (and thus the terminals). But as I said earlier, no bank supports it yet. So if you're German and have a German bank you cannot put your credit crd in Apple Pay.
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Got it. But it has been other times that it hasn't worked, regardless of it being enabled in my phone and the terminal supporting contactless!!
 
German banks aren't going to adopt it. When Google Pay launched, most banks even Deutsche Bank released their own bad written NFC payment apps on Android to avoid using the unified one. At least Google Pay supports PayPal, which means you can add whatever bank you want.

As long as Apple Pay doesn't support PayPal, people won't adopt it that fast, the problem is that Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank are banks that people use in big cities, smaller cities rely on old fashioned banks like Sparkasse and VR Bank. I personally was a Deutsche Bank customer and changed to Revolut which supports Google Pay just for this reason. They charged a lot of money for services online banks provide for free and felt old and outdated plus the payment app was terrible.

The year I had an iPhone, I used Apple Pay by doing the country change method via Boon. It worked like a charm, mobile payment in general is fast and reliable as long as you use the official method provided by Apple or Google. Even today people look at me as an alien whenever I want to pay with my smartphone. Some of them even await to hand them my card.

Most smaller stores even today, don't support credit cards or modern maestro debit cards. So as a customer who only uses debit Mastercard and Maestro, I cannot pay because they await the old EC (Electronic Cash) card old fashioned banks use. So I have to carry cash in some occasions.
 
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Deutsche Bank?

Edith: I would have been utterly disappointed without DB participating.
I even would have chosen a different provider. You lucked out on this DB.
 
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Finally!! Keep in mind that the page on Apple's website still has an orange "soon" sticker. So it probably won't happen today maybe during the week.

Here all supporting banks:
 

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Neg4433 said:
German banks aren't going to adopt it. When Google Pay launched, most banks even Deutsche Bank released their own bad written NFC payment apps on Android to avoid using the unified one. At least Google Pay supports PayPal, which means you can add whatever bank you want.

As long as Apple Pay doesn't support PayPal, people won't adopt it that fast, the problem is that Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank are banks that people use in big cities, smaller cities rely on old fashioned banks like Sparkasse and VR Bank. I personally was a Deutsche Bank customer and changed to Revolut which supports Google Pay just for this reason. They charged a lot of money for services online banks provide for free and felt old and outdated plus the payment app was terrible.
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Comdirect, Deutsche Bank, N26 are very big German banks and they are listed in the press release. Sparkasse banks most of their customers are old people who aren't going to use Apple Pay anyway.
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Neg4433 said:
Only because Apple doesn't open the NFC sensor to developers for payment. Deutsche Bank released their own crappy payment app on Android, because they didn't want to use Google Pay.
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Dude, Deutsche Bank is listed on the website
 
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Comdirect, Deutsche Bank, N26 are very big German banks and they are listed in the press release. Sparkasse banks most of their customers are old people who aren't going to use Apple Pay anyway.
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Dude, Deutsche Bank is listed on the website
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That's what I said. If Apple allowed the developers to use the NFC Sensor for Payments, deutsche bank would have released their own App like they did on Android because they actually don't want to use another system. They are forced to use Apple Pay because they can't release their crappy payment app on iOS.
 
Maybe Germany should start using credit cards first, still find myself having to pay cash like 90% of the time.

Same in Austria/Japan, anyone got some insight?
 
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