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.
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.
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? I use bizum from my bank app without any google account
You need it to install the bank app.
Ah, is that the case on android? Makes sense, i need an Apple id to install the banking app on my iPhone.
That being said, I can send bizums from the bank webapp, no smarthone required, just my bank credentials. Does your bank forbid to send bizums from the web?
I never thought that it could be available directly from the website. That website it’s too much a pain in the ass to use but it is good to know in case I ever really need to. Thanks.