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Germany forces Apple to let other mobile wallet services use iPhone’s NFC chip

• everybodyknows 7y ago
  From the German press: https://www.dw.com/en/german-parliament-passes-anti-money-laundering-laws/a-51260043 https://www.dw.com/en/german-parliament-passes-anti-money-la...
• sschueller 7y ago
  Good, now I hope the Swiss grow a backbone and demand the same. Twint (Bluetooth payment in Switzerland) is absolute garbage because of this.
• tinus_hn 7y ago
  I presume they’ll just block Apple Pay in Germany instead.
  • anoncake 7y ago
    If they want to lose market share.
  • aaomidi 7y ago
    This is likely going to extend to be an EU wide law - they are currently under investigation anyway.
• distances 7y ago
  I didn't know banks weren't allowed to use NFC for payments in Apple world. That's frankly crazy, there's no way that'd fly in the long run. Any insights to why Apple even tried this?
  • plandis 7y ago
    I’m personally not excited for banks to come up with crappy, less secure versions of Apple Pay, to be honest.
    • distances 7y ago
      I guess we have different experiences with banks. I'd never use Apple or Google as a wallet myself, they already have enough power without tapping to people's financial transactions.
    • anoncake 7y ago
      Don't use them then.
  • ac29 7y ago
    Apple tends to frown on applications that do the same or similar things to Apple's own apps. This used to be explicitly disallowed in App Store rules, though now only certain things aren't allowed like third-party App stores or third-party web browsers.
    • marcoseliziario 7y ago
      Isn't that abusing power to avoid competition?
      • aaomidi 7y ago
        Welcome to the Apple strategy on everything.