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Apple Pay Apple Pay in Germany

And what’s even funnier is that Apple Pay Supports Saudi Arabia‘s national payment network from the start with co-brand support as well. All that without even announcing the support officially or even launching it officially. Great.
 
But how is it possible, that the Saudi arabian People can see the wallet settings/add a card then? There Must be more than just that one json file
 
As we all know, existence of support pages have no meaning at all.

German Apple Pay support pages exist since at last two years and have been updated regularly. With different versions and update timestamps than the Swiss ones.
 
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Saudi banks have deactivated all Apple Pay cards, so it seems like it was a mistake after all.
 

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And it’s mich more strange the more i think about it.

So it seems everything is ready in Saudi Arabia. The API ob the bank systems. Everything on apples side. And they do not start.

Now something happenes and cards are able to be activated. But they do deactivate the cards, not just leave them activated and go public and start in some way. They do deactivate the cards... huh?
 
I would think that they have probably started a closed beta test of Apple Pay but somehow someone forgot to restrict the test to specific cards only and users found out by trying to add their cards.

And it’s nothing unusual that they’ve deactivated the cards, probably would get a lot of **** from Apple if they just left everything open.
 
kkrdvc said:
I would think that they have probably started a closed beta test of Apple Pay but somehow someone forgot to restrict the test to specific cards only and users found out by trying to add their cards.

And it’s nothing unusual that they’ve deactivated the cards, probably would get a lot of **** from Apple if they just left everything open.
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Don’t really think it’s in the hand of the banks to unrestrict the cards. I think it’s more something like „give Apple the card id and they will approve it“
[doublepost=1538676231][/doublepost]But we will never know...
 
Definitely not. Banks have the possibility to lock the card in Apple Pay, Apple doesn’t. How else would they be able to disable the cards when you call when your phone gets stolen?
 
I do not speak of productive system. We were talking of Beta Phase. Apple needs to get involved for the beta stuff and i think they do need the UUID of the iPhone. They have to activate Apple Pay on the wallet app without changing the region... don’t think an official Beta Test for Apple Pay starts with „change Region“
[doublepost=1538676820][/doublepost]Or at least Apple needs to provide a profile to get another configuration for showing Apple Pay in wallet
 
Who cares why or why not Saudi Arabian people were able to activate their cards... we will never know what this was about and speculating about it has no worth whatsoever. And it does not change a thing about Apple Pay launch in Germany. It’s still the same situation... Apple Pay was announced and if Apple is following their pattern they will launch it before the end of October. And on next earnings call they will probably announce new countries like Saudi Arabia...
 
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seems like just automatic translation jobs to me. currency is still USD ("Geben Sie einen Betrag ein. Der Mindestbetrag liegt bei 10 USD"), still "Green Dot Bank" as service provider and so on.
 
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