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To be fair both points of view are valid and easy to agree upon. Apple makes choices for its customers, though, when the EU government makes choices for its cit
by yohannparis 4y ago
To be fair both points of view are valid and easy to agree upon. Apple makes choices for its customers, though, when the EU government makes choices for its citizen. And even if the EU might be wrong, Apple must comply.
Apple couldn't open the NFC payment API & technologies first to make sure the Apple Pay technology image wasn't tarnished by poor and less secure competitive payment solutions on iOS.
But now, they have no excuses to allow competition. Especially if they cannot use the Apple Pay trademarks.
- Despegar 4y ago>And even if the EU might be wrong, Apple must comply. Well no. If they're "wrong" then they'll lose the case when it heads to the General Court and/or the ECJ.
- yohannparis 4y agoI meant "wrong" in a moral or philosophical point of view, not in the illegal meaning.
- ntkachov 4y agoI think the EU had chip and tap to pay before apple. So the over there Apple looks like it implemented a solution and then blocked competitors from using the platform with already established payment terminals. In the US, the optics are very different because Google, Samsung and others came way after apple took the reigns and drove adoption of tap to pay.
- agloeregrets 4y agoGoogle actually got there prior to Apple in the US with Wallet, but then played the typical google branding mess and got caught up in that insane carrier game that went on (can you believe we had a payment app called ISIS?!) so they lost any ground there lol.