Comment by Aachen
1 day ago
> Wero is actually a payment broker as it usually connects with the payment system (often a banking app) of your choice.
Except you don't have a choice. It's not like iDeal where you can just use your bank's regular login method to pay; this requires making a big tech account to download some app where maybe it then works if it likes your device. IDeal always worked in a browser. Why change a running system with a less-compatible one?
I feel the same but I'm starting to think that EPI is right to not care.
Nobody from any tech media seems to be pointing out the Google/Apple smartphone dependency, let alone ask anyone at EPI about it. If they do, at least they're not writing about the results.
The only article I know of that ever asked the question is actually from the press of the German government: https://www.das-parlament.de/wirtschaft/finanzen/wir-bauen-m...
"What about smartphones that run on free and open-source software instead of the commercial operating systems used by the iPhone or Google?
Tanja Müller-Ziegler: This market is still very much a niche one. There are still too few providers, which is why it’s hardly worth offering banking apps for these devices."
Other than that I have seen ZERO pressure on this point from the media.
Obviously I do think EPI should intrinsically care, but I also am starting to see more and more that from their point of view literally nobody cares, so why should they?