[vanviegen]

I think most/many banks had their own nfc tap-to-pay solution before Google/Apple Pay came along. Any idea why the banks chose to give that up?

[andor]

On Smartcards yes, maybe Android, but certainly not on iPhones. On iOS, it's only been possible to implement alternatives to Apple Pay since 17.4 (2024), and only in Europe (EEA).

[vanviegen]

Ah, I didn't realize the landscape was different on the Apple side of things.

[TitaRusell]

Because it cost money to develop and Google/Apple Pay works really, really well everywhere on the planet.

[vanviegen]

But they already had their own solutions that worked just fine. I can't see how switching to integrate a new system instead would save on dev costs. There surely must be some other reason?