broomMassive Wero advertisement in the Frankfurt Main Station
Is already hanging there for a while…
If only you could… you know… use it to pay for stuff? In stores? Wild concept, I know.
Something Burger 🍔I fail to see how Wero would be practical for paying in a store. Using a card is faster, and if you use your phone to pay, you might as well use NFC.
and how do you pay with NFC? AFAIK that only works with Google Pay / Apple Pay.
Some banks have their own app that works without Google Pay or even without Play Services.
Yes, some banks. But as Wero is a european project that aims to build financial infrastructure independent of US tech, I would’ve liked to see such a feature (if it requires an app on a mobile phone anyway). This would make contactless payment without Google feasible for everyone (and terminal providers would only have to implement one new protocol instead of handling each bank’s custom NFC stuff)
Bank apps don’t implement anything custom. They act like a real card.