Then get an android instead of destroying iOS. Simple solution
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EU Reportedly Satisfied With Apple's Plans to Open iPhone's NFC Chip to Rivals
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If BT or WiFi were restricted in that manor, no one would buy the device, that is the market at work. You can restrict too much.
IMHO what will happen here is this:
EU Reportedly Satisfied With Apple's Plans to Open iPhone's NFC Chip to Rivals
Apple tries to prioritize the user experience. By restricting NFC, they can ensure all cards are located in one reliable place - the wallet app accessed by a double-click of the side-button. With NFC opened up, banks can pull their card from Apple Pay and force the user to open their app to...
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I do not find this consumer friendly in any way.
I offer the same explanation for this that I do with alt-app stores. Why would a bank pull their cards from only Android wallets and go exclusive to their app when that would create a divide in the customer base and allow Android customers to complain "you didn't pull your card from Apple". They will wait for this crap (forcing Apple to open the chip) and remove their cards from all mobile wallets and force users onto their own apps at the same time.
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This thread should be civil. I don't see an issue with this so long as interoperability is maintained.
Apple's business in the EU is first and foremost the EU's business.
And Apple shouldn't be doing business in the EU in the first place if it doesn't want to abide by EU laws and regulations.
I agree.
It’s crazy how ugly and terrible android is when windows phone, bb10, and webos existed. Even while copying webos, it’s such a terribly designed operating system.
I agree, but with Windows Phone. WP8.1 was beautiful, and fast.
Though I fail to understand how Android always comes up. I thought this thread was about Apple Pay?
Android has its market share because I can literally go into Walmart and buy a brand new android for $20.
Plz tell me what iPhone can he had for $20
There’s a reason why the best selling android phones are not pixels or galaxy s24 it’s the budget devices.
Android is only popular because it was the cheapest and easiest way to get a smartphone. Not because it is good.
And to answer your question , I own a z flip and s22 so I use android regularly and it’s inferior than iOS ecosystem.
It’s more about the Eu trying to force iOS to be open like android when it was never meant to be.
Hopefully.
I paid for my iPhone, I own it. I should easily be able to pick and chose whatever OS I want running on it or not.
If iOS is so superior in every way then we'll all run back into the arms of Tim Apple, begging him to shelter us from the horrors that govern the world outside the Walled Garden.
But I'd like to have the decision to destroy my iPhone instead of being forced to use it how Apple wants me to, even though I'm the owner of the device.
Apple also isn't responsible for what Android does on iPhone or what privacy violations happen if it happens outside of iOS.
There's something noble about making such capable software available to the masses, don't you think?
Why though? If you don't like it, why subject yourself to it?
Any company, from any industry. No exceptions.
Companies should not be legally allowed to keep me from doing what I want with hardware I own. I purchased it, therefor it is mine; not theirs to decide. If Apple, or any other company, wants to control my hardware, then they can lease it or rent it to me. Once it's sold to me, they lose any right to it whatsoever.
I don't want Android. I want an iPhone, and I want Apple to let me use it as I see fit.
Ah so true. Businesses and individuals alike should just blindly assume the government always has their best interests in mind and never push back on any policy decisions whatsoever "cuz they said so"... Sounds like a perfectly healthy way to run society.
This is bad. It will help European banks competing with Apple Pay and probably win instead of losing.
Banks should be punished for their abysmal customer service the last 100 years, not helped.
Banks should be punished for their abysmal customer service the last 100 years, not helped.
It's not good if you want the European banks to loose.
This will make things better for banks since they can implement their own payment solution into iPhones.
This going to happen in Norway.
The largest bank in Norway never supported Apple Pay because they wanted their own payment solution to win. When they bought up other banks, they removed Apple Pay support from these banks.
Now, almost all the banks in Norway are joining together to get their own payment solution on the iPhone. Many more of them will remove Apple Pay support and those who never supported it will continue to not support it.
It's only good for banks and others who want their payment solution to win.
In Norway, the largest bank (20-25% market share) never supported Apple Pay. Now they're joined by other banks to push the bank's own payment solution onto iPhones. Banks are already withdrawing support for Apple Pay here.
Then some of us are against you as a human being.
So why do you buy products and services from companies you're against?
was never a closed platform.
Fortunately, Apple has closed down the Mac more and more for the last 15 years or so. It's now a semi-closed system, at least by default.
Yes, Apple should be allowed to do this if they wanted as long as customer knew before they bought the device.
There should be extremely few restrictions on how companies make their products, even if that makes it a lousy product.
I don't want others to make NFC solutions which bypass Apple's own solutions. Only when Apple doesn't have solution should third-parties be allowed.
In the US, Walmart doesn't allow Apple Pay for similar reasons (and they want to extract demographics from sales, which they can't do if the credit card number changes every time as it does with Apple Pay).
Although they don't do NFC, they just use QR codes for their mobile payment solution.
Companies that want to be obdurate will be obdurate no matter what.
Whether this happens at large scale, I don't think it will - but time will tell.
Amazing how many people seem to think that your phone, that you purchase outright, still belongs to Apple
So odd
So odd
Yes, but in this case I don't mind if the European banks looses and Apples dominate with a monopoly.
I want the banks to loose completely.