If you like Apple’s payment system, then you can choose to not use an app with a third party system. That’s your choice as a consumer, and if Apple’s service re

If you like Apple’s payment system, then you can choose to not use an app with a third party system. That’s your choice as a consumer, and if Apple’s service really is superior, then it will win on it’s own merits. But Apple doesn’t want to compete. Even if their service is better and they’re confident that users will choose them over third parties, they know that allowing competition will force them to lower their obscene fees in the long term. Market forces do that in a competitive market. That’s all there is to it. It has absolutely nothing to do with user security or privacy. Apple isn’t going to sit idly by while regulators make decisions that threaten their long term profits. They’re going to fight it for as long as they possibly can. Anything less would be laziness on the part of their executive team.