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Yeah, this seems like the standard usage. A search for "peer to peer payment apps" gets articles that talk about Venmo, CashApp, Apple Pay, etc. A search for "P

Yeah, this seems like the standard usage. A search for "peer to peer payment apps" gets articles that talk about Venmo, CashApp, Apple Pay, etc. A search for "P2P {..}" or even "person to person {..}" yields the same articles despite them using "peer-to-peer". I got a little invested in disproving myself on this- I feel like I've heard peer-to-peer used this way a ton, but half of the comments here were criticizing it.

kelseyfrog 3y ago
If you search C2C you get Venmo, CashApp, and PayPal too. Who's right?
- ToValueFunfetti 3y ago
  Kind of? "C2C payment apps" on DuckDuckGo gets me [1], which lists eBay, Etsy, Craigslist, and Amazon. It mentions Paypal, Venmo, etc., but only in passing. Then [2] does call them out in a more direct way- it mentions C2C payments and Venmo in the same sentence, but then calls them peer-to-peer by the next paragraph. And the first result of a google search [3] is an unrelated app. And finally [4] does use C2C to describe Venmo, though it calls Apple Pay and Paypal C2B. Overall, I do think peer-to-peer is the vastly more common phrase for this, and these articles seemed much less directed at a layperson. But who's right? It's a language thing, so the answer I think is usually 'everybody!'. I'm just weirded out and getting overinvested. [1] https://www.clarity-ventures.com/ecommerce/what-is-consumer-to-consumer-ecommerce https://www.clarity-ventures.com/ecommerce/what-is-consumer-... [2] https://www.businessinsider.com/real-time-payments-help-b2b-c2c-b2c-use-cases-2021-4?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/real-time-payments-help-b2b-... [3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.edvin.ukujy&hl=en_US&gl=US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.edvin.ukujy... [4] https://theconversation.com/c2c-the-next-frontier-in-mobile-payments-is-all-about-trust-36337 https://theconversation.com/c2c-the-next-frontier-in-mobile-...

kelseyfrog 3y ago

If you search C2C you get Venmo, CashApp, and PayPal too. Who's right?

ToValueFunfetti 3y ago
Kind of? "C2C payment apps" on DuckDuckGo gets me [1], which lists eBay, Etsy, Craigslist, and Amazon. It mentions Paypal, Venmo, etc., but only in passing. Then [2] does call them out in a more direct way- it mentions C2C payments and Venmo in the same sentence, but then calls them peer-to-peer by the next paragraph. And the first result of a google search [3] is an unrelated app. And finally [4] does use C2C to describe Venmo, though it calls Apple Pay and Paypal C2B. Overall, I do think peer-to-peer is the vastly more common phrase for this, and these articles seemed much less directed at a layperson. But who's right? It's a language thing, so the answer I think is usually 'everybody!'. I'm just weirded out and getting overinvested. [1] https://www.clarity-ventures.com/ecommerce/what-is-consumer-to-consumer-ecommerce https://www.clarity-ventures.com/ecommerce/what-is-consumer-... [2] https://www.businessinsider.com/real-time-payments-help-b2b-c2c-b2c-use-cases-2021-4?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/real-time-payments-help-b2b-... [3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.edvin.ukujy&hl=en_US&gl=US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.edvin.ukujy... [4] https://theconversation.com/c2c-the-next-frontier-in-mobile-payments-is-all-about-trust-36337 https://theconversation.com/c2c-the-next-frontier-in-mobile-...