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European payments groups join forces to challenge US dominance

63 points · 92 comments · vrganj

petcat · 1790944810 · focus · HN ↗
These all require Google or Apple devices both by the seller and the buyer. Wero explicitly does not even support non-Google Android devices.
I'm not sure that replacing Visa and MasterCard is really that big of a sovereignty move considering the pervasive dominance American mobile OS tech has. It's a much harder ecosystem to replace.
1. jeroenhd · 1790945354 · focus · HN ↗
  Updating an app to not require the Play Store is a lot easier than switching payment provider backend.
  Wero can fix the dependency on Google in a day, I don't think the dependency on Google is as bad as the broader dependency on Mastercard/Visa is.
  That said, I'd much prefer a European implementation of the same remote attestation APIs that Google uses to convince payment processors that phones can be trusted to manage finances.
  On iOS you don't really have a choice so until someone runs Linux on an iPhone, iPhone users are just screwed.
  1. zb3 · 1790945675 · focus · HN ↗
    Yep, they can allow GrapheneOS, right now. So let's pressure them into doing that.

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