Why would they? Stripe is just one of X layers which Apple Pay can run on. There's no need for them to get into that business. The next stage for Apple Pay is

Why would they? Stripe is just one of X layers which Apple Pay can run on. There's no need for them to get into that business. The next stage for Apple Pay is to run their own payment network between Apple Pay users. No Stripe required, Apple takes a processing fee instead of First Data, etc.