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Im a German with a German Postbank account, living in Switzerland. Wero app Play Store page: "This item isn't available in your country." Hard to cheer for a
by nh2 2mo ago
Im a German with a German Postbank account, living in Switzerland.
Wero app Play Store page: "This item isn't available in your country."
Hard to cheer for a thing when it prevents you to access your own money, and promises to "easily pay" immediately fall flat.
Paypal is bad but at least it doesn't fail at step 0.
- V__ 2mo agoTo be fair, how is Google blocking you from downloading an app, a Wero problem though?
- jsnell 2mo agoThe publisher, in this case Postbank, decides what countries to allow installs from for an app. Google just enforces the policy the publisher sets.
- kfse 2mo agoCountry availability is a policy set up by the app publisher, not a Google policy
- tosti 2mo agoWhich is complete bullshit with the Euro having been specifically invented to be used across the EU. I had a similar moment of stupidifiedment trying to park in Germany with a phone set to Dutch region. Euro in cash works everywhere Euros are accepted but apps on the freaking Internet? Nah, gotta restrict that to the publisher country only.
- tremon 2mo agoSwitzerland is not part of the EU nor the Eurozone though. It's still a shortsighted stance of Postbank not to open the app to at least the DACH region, but that specific argument carries little weight.
- tosti 2mo agoI accidentally skipped that part :(
- kfse 2mo agoI mean, there's some reason for it as EU countries have different laws and regulations, but yes, it's a dumb choice on the publisher's part