Apple Offers To Open Mobile Payments To Third Parties Amid EU Antitrust Case (wsj.com) 16
Apple committed to address antitrust concerns posed by the European Commission surrounding its popular Apple Pay app, including allowing access to third-party mobile wallet and payment services. WSJ: The U.S. tech giant has agreed to allow companies' apps to make contactless payments on devices that use the iOS system, such as iPhones, for free without the need to use Apple Pay or Apple Wallet, the EU's executive arm said Friday.
What? (Score:4, Interesting)
You mean the government hand may work where the invisible one doesn't? But how can that be??!?
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The hand of govt is tyranny.
The hand of the free market is masturbatory.
When someone offers to lend a hand to help, choose carefully.
Squawk, Squawk (Score:4, Insightful)
God, Americans are so brainwashed and act like propaganda parrots. You don't even have a government worth fearing. Yet you keep voting for those tyrant wannabes like Trump. The government is good, when it's run by the citizens for the citizens, and not corporate America, but I can see why Americans don't understand that it exists.
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Billions of people around the world fear the American govt., and for good reason.
Not sure why. Since the mid-1970s, apart from selling/giving arms to various countries, the U.S. government has mostly stayed out of the world's business militarily except in situations where somebody attacked the U.S., attacked their neighbor, staged a coup, engaged in genocide, or flagrantly violated UN sanctions.
If you're not doing something seriously wrong, you have nothing to fear. And if you are doing something seriously wrong... well maybe you should try not doing that.
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Nothing to hide, nothing to fear. Got it.
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Nothing to hide, nothing to fear. Got it.
Everyone has something to hide from someone. Not every country is genocidal, war-mongering, etc. So not remotely equivalent. Try again.
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If I had mod points... Seriously, American friends, it's kind if weird from a European perspective how you guys often can't seem to see past this stuff.
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Yes... Now we just need to get a suit against Apple in the US citing the agreement with the EUC to make them implement the same changes in the US as well. I mean it sucks but I guess it's fine if they want to limit hardware access to the Apple wallet specifically and claim the ridiculous justification of security for limiting what other apps can touch the NFC hardware. However, restricting payment providers that can be used to Apple Pay while Obstructing or impeding 3rd party sites from interoperat
Re:Well, that sucks (Score:4, Insightful)
Remind me why you aren't posting that little gem from the libertarian paradise of the Congo? Oh yeah that's because you like living somewhere where the fucking government makes sure shit actually works and it's not simply run by the most powerful warlords.
They still want to collect a cut though (Score:1)
How is that not obviously a violation of antitrust law? Answer, it is, now we just get to see how well bribery works or doesn't.
Re:They still want to collect a cut though (Score:4, Insightful)
The way to fix it is to force them to allow 3rd party app stores.
charge a commission yes but limit number of links? (Score:2)
charge a commission yes but limit number of links AND where you can put the link?
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Not about in-app payments (Score:3)
I believe this is about allowing third-party apps to handle NFC payments with the phone, so the user doesn't have to use Apple Pay and can use another app for virtual credit cards or whatever.