Where each bank had their own janky implementation inside their own specific app, which was both slower and had a worse UX.
Had a credit (a la Amex) that wasn’t from a major bank? Well womp womp no wireless pay for you.
I for one welcome the Australian banks getting put out to the curb on this. The Apple Pay/Wallet experience is genuinely better in just about every single way. I also enjoy the virtualised card number I get with Apple Pay, which I don’t believe any of the Australian banks bothered implementing, presumably because they were all too busy illegally charging dead people, and hiring corrupt ex state PM’s to build anything good.
The apps are bad, sure, but it was the banks who heavily pushed contactless EFTPOS terminals out to merchants in Australia. Without those, Apple Pay is a very cute curiosity on your phone, but I hope you remember your PIN because here comes the restaurant's dinosaur card machine. (Or worse, a click-clack card imprinter.)
Where each bank had their own janky implementation inside their own specific app, which was both slower and had a worse UX.
Had a credit (a la Amex) that wasn’t from a major bank? Well womp womp no wireless pay for you.
I for one welcome the Australian banks getting put out to the curb on this. The Apple Pay/Wallet experience is genuinely better in just about every single way. I also enjoy the virtualised card number I get with Apple Pay, which I don’t believe any of the Australian banks bothered implementing, presumably because they were all too busy illegally charging dead people, and hiring corrupt ex state PM’s to build anything good.