In a move that is somewhat reminiscent of some made by Spotify, Samsung delivered an application to the App Store, if you allow me the expression, to "see if the flute sounded." Is about Samsung Paymini, an iPhone application that would allow users to make payments with the Korean giant's mobile payment service. What have the Cupertino people done with this application? Well, for now, reject it without giving any explanation.
Already last May, Samsung announced that it would launch an application for iOS called Samsung Pay mini, but everything seems to indicate that they never trusted Apple to admit it in its application store. The clearest symptom of this mistrust is that the Koreans, after confirming that Tim Cook and company have rejected the application, Samsung has confirmed that it will not try to deliver the application again to be available in the apple application store, which which makes us think that either Apple's response has been blunt or that the Koreans knew that their new application violated the rules of the App Store.
Samsung Pay mini won't come to iPhone
Samsung Pay mini will be an application that will bring Samsung Pay to devices that are not part of the Galaxy brand. Samsung's next goal is to bring its mobile payments service to all types of smartphones with Android operating system to compete with Android Pay, something that I personally believe will be a losing battle as Google's mobile payments system spreads.
At the beginning of this post I commented that this move by Samsung seems more like a marketing strategy than anything else, in a similar way to what Spotify did to get its users to pay for the subscription without going through Apple's filter, which gave it fewer benefits to the world's most used music streaming service. What Spotify did was, first, deliver updates that violated App Store rules and, second, publicly complain to get on everyone's lips. It seems that this has been the intention of Samsung when delivering an app to pay with the smartphone knowing that those of Cupertino would not accept it for preferring to promote their own service, Apple Pay. Who do you think is right about this Samsung Pay mini thing?
If Apple does not give access to NFC to anyone because they thought that Samsung does.
There are a multitude of applications from almost all banks operating in Spain
and none of these apps has access to NFC which is essential for
be able to pay with mobile.
For this reason I think it is not a problem because they are from Samsung.
Samsung has a multitude of applications in iTunes and while they do not break the
rules, which should be the same for everything, are not rejected by Apple.
Those of BBVA, for example that I have read this somewhere, have said if Apple
does not give access to NFC do not go into business with Apple Pay.