What is really unavailable is that the mobile phone can be recharged by itself, so the impact on Russia is not great.
ApplePay and GooglePay are disabled, resulting in the subway being unavailable and long queues at the gates.
The self-media has started talking nonsense again, for the following reasons:
1. Let’s talk about the rules first: if you don’t have a mobile phone, you can also use a bus card or a single-use card. As long as it is not a coin operation, then the gate The queue at the airport has little to do with the ban on Apple and Google. Even if it is banned, you should buy tickets at the ticket vending machine and queue up. Others retorted that some people could not use their mobile phones to swipe the information, so they were blocked there.
I really don’t know the management mechanism of their subway in Russia, but if you look at the domestic ones, there will definitely be prompt messages, and there will even be a loudspeaker announcing there. Why do all the news use photos of this gate queue? At least logically speaking, it would be better to give the Russian official notification. It is impossible that the Russian subway official will not issue a news report.
2. Technically, it should be difficult for Apple and Google to deactivate the bus card (it is possible for Apple, after all, it has the root authority, but Google’s root is largely controlled by Manufacturers control it, just like Xiaomi and Huawei have the highest authority over their mobile phones).
I checked the information on the Internet and found only one tweet, saying it was a Moscow metro announcer: "Due to unforeseen blowback from fellow Russians shooting cluster munitions at Ukrainian civilians, your cashapps no longer work. We apologize for the inconvenience." It probably means that the cash App cannot be used, which should mean that mobile payment is no longer available.
The reason why mobile payment is not available is probably because Europe and the United States have imposed Swift sanctions on Russia. For bus cards issued over the air on mobile phones, there are usually two recharge methods. One is similar to the traditional one, which is to recharge at the machine, and the other is to recharge by yourself through the mobile phone. Therefore, what is really unavailable should be self-recharging on the mobile phone (after all, after the sanctions, neither Apple nor Google can connect to Russian banks, so how can they recharge money).
I don’t know what kind of payment protocol is used by Russian public transportation (I don’t understand Russian and can’t find relevant information), so because ApplePay and GooglePay are disabled, most of the media have discussed the issue of subway queues. They are all reprinted based on rumors, and the contents are basically incorrect. I don’t know whether the thing is true or not, and I don’t know the reason behind the thing, so I just publish the content casually, regardless of whether it is true or not.
There is a piece of news that is even more funny. It is said that Korean athletes stole the TV set during the Winter Olympics? It's really unspeakable. It is true to say that Koreans have no sportsmanship and like all kinds of rumors about China. I even believe that Korean athletes deliberately destroy items, such as TV massage chairs. But what makes me believe that a Korean athlete can carry a TV set of at least 40 inches from the room is still under surveillance and in front of everyone, and there is not even a video or picture. I really can't believe this.
In today’s self-media, offline numbers are getting lower and lower. Or maybe everyone likes emotions instead of thinking.