Android Ping!
Posted on 12/15/2015 8:02:46 PM PST by Utilizer
Still no deal with Apple.
Five of Australia's biggest banks have signed up with Google's Android Pay payments service as they continue to butt heads with Apple over Cupertino's own Apple Pay platform.
ANZ Bank, Westpac, ING Direct, Macquarie Bank, St George, Bank of Melbourne, Bank of South Australia and Bendigo Bank will all support the Android payment service when it lands in Australia in the first half of next year.
At launch, Android Pay will support Mastercard and Visa credit and debit cards, Google said in a blog post today. The company is currently "working with Eftpos" on similar support.
Missing from the list is the Commonwealth Bank, which already offers a mobile wallet that can be used on any Android phone to make payments.
(Excerpt) Read more at itnews.com.au ...
(no offence to the androidusers out there -besides, it's Linux-kernel -based! *smile*)
Is this of interest to you, mate?
BTTT!
Guess not...
I'm the Windows ping list guy, so no offense, but not my playground. However, I daresay this is of interest to ThunderSleeps -- he's the Android ping list guy -- and possibly to Swordmaker, who is the Apple ping list guy, because Apple Pay is also mentioned. So I'm pinging them here....
One of these days, Microsoft is threatening to re-launch "Microsoft Wallet", which is sort of their version of Apple Pay and Android Pay.
Microsoft is getting serious about payments in Windows 10
"... Windows is going to have a wallet concept. You've seen it on phones before. We're going to continue to iterate it," Joe Belfiore, corporate VP of the company's operating systems group, said. "We're going to think about the range of payment scenarios... Mobile payments is a 'massive network of complexity.'"And of course y'all remember Windows Wallet for Windows Phone 8.1, right? What, you don't? LOLWhile Belfiore didn't say when exactly a new wallet would launch, or whether it would utilize NFC or other payment technology, he cited Windows Hello, the company's new facial recognition technology introduced with the Windows 10 operating system, as a good example of the "kind of technology we'll build into devices for authentication to make... payments better." It's likely that any kind of updated Windows Phone payments app would utilize NFC technology, the same tech Windows Wallet for Windows Phone 8.1 was said to use.
Apologies, mate. I thought I saw you on a few occasions pinging the Android list and I did not know who was in charge of it, thus the question posed to you.
Thanks for pinging the correct people though.
Cheers!
Sure thing.
Something FR desperately needs is an updated central list of ping lists and who maintains them. The last I saw is 8 years old:
Even the most recent CALL for a master ping list list is 6 years old:
CALL FOR NEW FReeper PING LIST MASTER LIST
I've thought about it... maybe I'll start gathering info over the holidays, right after I clean up the wood workshop and the electronics lab and the music studio....
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