Originally Posted by moox:
“Barclays seems committed to not supporting anything that everyone else uses. They want you to use their app”
What do you base that on? Quite an assumption don't you think?
Support for Android Pay is coming, as I have said in the past using these pay services is simple, what goes on behind the scenes is way more complex than a typical contactless card transaction. You would do well not to make such assumptions when you have no grounding for them. Its expected to arrive in or just after the summer.
Originally Posted by jonmorris:
“As has been said before, Barclays will support Android Pay. Just not straight away.”
Its coming, its been in testing for months, like Apple pay was. The system isn't easy to setup due to the way the transactions are secured. When using your card for a contactless purchase its no different to chip and pin (save not entering a pin), the process is the same. For Android and Apple Pay we know unique auth codes are used once in every transaction, thats where the complication lies.
Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“I think Barclays get it via their app, it is quite imminent too.”
Barclays was/is working on its own variant, however consensus as won out, very little point developing a rival system seeing as most people will want to use the more popular services. Barclays is slow when it comes to mobile technology, they only launched a fully fledged mobile banking app in 2012, where as the rest of the market were well ahead in thier digital strategies.#
Android Pay has been in testing with Barclays for months, its extensive yet complicated, its just not ready. That may also explain why RBS group of companies haven't launched at the outset.