More and more we use our iPhones to make payments, in Spain for example we are close to forgetting to carry the wallet since we can carry practically all our bank cards on our iPhone, and even the driving license (a method to identify ourselves), through the miDGT app. An app that precisely uses a QR code that allows any agent to verify our identity and our driving license. And yes, the QRs that we thought were out of date are more up to date than ever. Now Apple wants to use them for us to use in our payments through Apple Pay. After the jump we will tell you all about this incorporation ...
Yes, the NFC is safe and has been used in financial transactions such as our bank cards. QR codes go one step further, they are already used to pay (in Spain the Repsol Waylet app allows this), but Apple wants to make them more secure. Will they also want to have control of these transactions? ... In this case, what they propose is to be the ones who manage the payments that are generated through these QRIn this way, the merchant will never have access to their client's movements, that is, they will not have access to us, and Apple will confirm that we have paid them. Come on, they do want to get something out of this ...
A system that, as we tell you, is not new, in China it is used quite a lot, and in Spain as I tell you there are cases, also the group VIPS allows you to pay your bills through QRYes, we have to use their apps and have our bank cards registered in them. Apple wants to save us from entering our bank details in third-party apps and be the ones to manage them. We'll see if they surprise us with new payment methods through Apple Pay.
In Carrefour you can also pay with a QR code through its app