The inhabitants of Germany will be able to enjoy or not, depending on how you look at it, to be able to pay for the applications they buy in the different application stores on the invoice for the phone associated with the Apple ID. As you know, what Apple offers right now when you create an account is to be able to make the payment through a bank card, for which it gives several options and on the other hand, use a preloaded iTunes card or not put a payment method.
It is clear that if you want to buy applications both in the App Store and in the Mac App Store, you cannot put “None” as the payment method, since the payment will have to be made in some medium. That is why only the option of a bank card or an iTunes card.
However, Apple wants to expand much more in Germany and for this it has opened the possibility of being able to pay for purchases you make in the application stores through the telephone bill of the number associated with the Apple ID. In this way when a user creates a new account or edits their data, if it is a German Apple account You will be able to select the phone company you use so that it is the one that bills you for the application.
It is not the first time that Apple decides to lift the limitations in this field and it is that already in Australia a very similar move was made at the time. In this way you can reach those users who without having to buy an iTunes card in a store who have them could pay on the phone company's own bill.
Now it remains to be seen if the charges do not carry a surcharge by the telephone company and also that it does not commit errors in the charges as it happens with its own billings in some cases. It should be noted that in Germany there is a type of card called EC-Karte. It is a debit card that is not associated with Visa, Mastercard or Maestro, among others.
We will see if with the passage of time another limitation is lifted and those of Cupertino allow payment through Paypal accounts.
