> When all your banks suck and Apple seems to be the only people with their shit together, sure but Australia doesn't live in that world.
ANZ was too busy charging dead people to bother implementing it. God only knows what westpac was up too, NAB had an implementation on Android, and having used it a bunch, it was _awful_ and I was glad when they gave up and just accepted the alternative. Combank did their own thing, and seemed the furthest along, but support seemed patchy and they ended up junking their solution anyways and going to Android/Apple pay anyways IIRC.
These places can hardly manage to maintain their own apps, I have about zero confidence in them deciding to wander off into the wilderness and trying again.
Not to mention, all the non-big-4, and all the smaller banks probably won’t bother with reimplementing NFC pay as they either don’t have the resources, or can’t rely on institutional-inertia to foist useless changes onto their customers.
The CBA Android app supports contactless, or you can add your card to the Google wallet. It seems to work equivalently well (although the enrolling bit has less friction in CBAs own app).
ANZ was too busy charging dead people to bother implementing it. God only knows what westpac was up too, NAB had an implementation on Android, and having used it a bunch, it was _awful_ and I was glad when they gave up and just accepted the alternative. Combank did their own thing, and seemed the furthest along, but support seemed patchy and they ended up junking their solution anyways and going to Android/Apple pay anyways IIRC.
These places can hardly manage to maintain their own apps, I have about zero confidence in them deciding to wander off into the wilderness and trying again.
Not to mention, all the non-big-4, and all the smaller banks probably won’t bother with reimplementing NFC pay as they either don’t have the resources, or can’t rely on institutional-inertia to foist useless changes onto their customers.