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Apple is finally going to open up iPhone tap-to-pay (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/apple

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The shift follows Apple's offer to open iPhone NFC payments to third-party providers following a European Commission antitrust investigation. The European Commission announced last month that it had made Apple’s commitments legally binding.

Also..

In its investigation, the Commission preliminarily concluded that Apple abused its dominant position by refusing to supply the NFC input on iOS to competing mobile wallet developers, while reserving such access only to Apple Pay.

The Commission's preliminary view is that Apple's refusal excluded Apple Pay's rivals from the market and led to less innovation and choice for iPhone mobile wallets users.

Neat! EU W