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in other words "later this year" was a false information on a conference call?
That is a bit tricky ...
or Switzerland
Switzerland makes no sense for somebody nearly 100% paying in euros.
Maybe .. but only in the USA first, isn't it?
By the time it comes to Germany, who knows may be Donald Trump's grandchild is the President.
Right, I need to be a bit more precise on some information I have given before: I stand by the fact that the boon. app should appear overnight in the German App Store - which happened in the most recent launches that boon. was part of (Italy and Ireland). It also makes sense, especially if boon. is a launch partner.
Sources:
-> https://www.ispazio.net/1804297/apple-pay-italia-disponibile-boon
-> No detailed source for Ireland, but I clearly remember this
What isn't correct is that I stated the timeframe for a launch was usually 07-10am. That used to be the case, but this year generally the launch has been at around 5-6am local time. That is a fact for Brasil, Poland, Norway and as we saw also for Kasachstan/Belgium.
Sources:
-> https://thinkapple.pl/2018/06/19/apple-pay-polska-juz-dostepne/
-> https://www.tek.no/artikler/apple-pay-lansert-i-norge/440361
-> Users sharing pics of their cards being added on Twitter: Usually starts at around 6am (ie. https://twitter.com/ApplePayBR/status/980643089999069184; https://twitter.com/alexanderslev1n/status/996976922298146817)
I think we could expect the same for Germany. I just wanted to clarify this, as I like facts... not fake news (hi, mr n4p84).
Sources:
-> https://www.ispazio.net/1804297/apple-pay-italia-disponibile-boon
-> No detailed source for Ireland, but I clearly remember this
What isn't correct is that I stated the timeframe for a launch was usually 07-10am. That used to be the case, but this year generally the launch has been at around 5-6am local time. That is a fact for Brasil, Poland, Norway and as we saw also for Kasachstan/Belgium.
Sources:
-> https://thinkapple.pl/2018/06/19/apple-pay-polska-juz-dostepne/
-> https://www.tek.no/artikler/apple-pay-lansert-i-norge/440361
-> Users sharing pics of their cards being added on Twitter: Usually starts at around 6am (ie. https://twitter.com/ApplePayBR/status/980643089999069184; https://twitter.com/alexanderslev1n/status/996976922298146817)
I think we could expect the same for Germany. I just wanted to clarify this, as I like facts... not fake news (hi, mr n4p84).
Someone asked, how often the Device polls the state of the availability - so fetching that config.json.
When you look at the HTTP caching headers, the max-age is 85s. But it also has an ETag and a Last-Modified header. At the moment of writing this, Last-Modified has the Value Wed, 28 Nov 2018 02:30:05 GMT, which was the launch of Belgium yesterday, right?
So, if they use standards, every 85s the Feature-Flags on the Device are updated.
(Btw: Using ETag and Last-Modified is an anti-pattern AFAIK)
When you look at the HTTP caching headers, the max-age is 85s. But it also has an ETag and a Last-Modified header. At the moment of writing this, Last-Modified has the Value Wed, 28 Nov 2018 02:30:05 GMT, which was the launch of Belgium yesterday, right?
So, if they use standards, every 85s the Feature-Flags on the Device are updated.
(Btw: Using ETag and Last-Modified is an anti-pattern AFAIK)
ECG
I think its polling once a day and when you open up the wallet app. And maybe some kind of secret push message. Don't think its polling that file every 85 seconds...
I think its polling once a day and when you open up the wallet app. And maybe some kind of secret push message. Don't think its polling that file every 85 seconds...
Sure. I did not say, that the device polling in that interval, but thats the validity of that document. And I think there are people who open the Wallet App quicker than every 85 seconds. ;-) To reduce that traffic and take off some load of their Backend, that header is set also for caching instances in front of the Apple server.
So for the script kiddies: You won't get quicker than 1 update per 85 seconds.
Rudolf Linsenbarth was joking around yesterday, that possibly Apple was waiting for DKB and ING.
I'm just going to say it: Could that be the reason Apple Pay is taking longer than usual to launch? comdirect was very late to the party and if Apple was able to bring DKB and/or ING on board for this year... it would be worth the wait, right?
We are also still waiting for Commerzbank and Santander...
I'm just going to say it: Could that be the reason Apple Pay is taking longer than usual to launch? comdirect was very late to the party and if Apple was able to bring DKB and/or ING on board for this year... it would be worth the wait, right?
We are also still waiting for Commerzbank and Santander...
They should just launch it now and put a coming soon badge to the other banks who aren't ready right now.
Yep, my error: "Frühjahr 2019", which fits with the update from FI in April 2019 - as Holger Dohms wrote a few days back: that would be the timeframe for Apple Pay as well.