Apple and PayPal services inaccessible for the Greeks

This is a consequence of the Greek crisis, many services that require the use of a credit card are inaccessible and the situation could last.

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Last week, the government introduced capital controls, an exceptional measure for an exceptionally serious situation which results to limit cash withdrawals (60 € / day), but also to prohibit or limit payments on accounts abroad.


A restriction that affects access to many services that require use or bind his bank card including PayPal and many Apple services that the small new Apple Music. Therefore impossible to buy a song for € 0.99, to listen Taylor Swift Apple Music or renew his subscription to iCloud as explained  the journalists the Bloomberg office in Athens.

PayPal allows to make payments online, send and receive money explained in a statement "to closely monitor the situation in Greece and the progress of negotiations between the government and its lenders" and that " with recent decisions of the Greek authorities on the control of capital, PayPal portfolio financing from Greek bank accounts and cross-border transactions financed by the cards or bank accounts are not currently available. "

Obviously, not being able to buy an application or pay his subscription to iCloud is not the most important problems faced by Greeks at the moment, despite the discontent many users on social networks, but does not help start -up and developers already in trouble.
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