The Apple company is starting to dabble in just about everything related to technology, and mobile payments are no exception. Except payment card Apple Card We have a much older service here. Apple Pay, thanks to which you can pay by phoneonem, smartwatches or any other Apple device. Unfortunately, the European Union is not very enthusiastic about this method, and although individual member states are slowly starting to integrate it, regulators are giving another reason why using the platform is not the best idea.
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The European Union is relatively uncompromising when it comes to market rules, and what companies can get away with in the West, especially in the United States, is mostly rejected or restricted in Europe. It is no different with the platform Apple Pay, which has also become popular with banks and individual countries are slowly starting to accept it as one of the many payment methods. However, the regulatory authorities do not see the whole matter so rosy, and a questionnaire sent to individual companies selling goods online only confirmed previous assumptions. The questionnaire primarily asked whether individual sellers were forced to use Apple Pay instead of competing services and whether Apple acted fairly in this matter. The European Commission is allegedlyoneThe idea is that the Apple company is putting certain companies at a disadvantage and preventing them from making legitimate sales. Simply put, the sellers were asked whether Apple in the contract, he forced them to use his payment method and in return offered them approval of the application in App Store.
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Technology giants have not had it easy in recent months and Apple is no exception. According to the official statement, the European Commission will continue to monitor and evaluate the situation, and if it finds even the slightest sign of monopolistic behavior, it will intervene. In addition, the regulatory authorities also shone a light on the Set Up Now function, which basically offered just that Apple Pay, and technology NFC, which intentionally did not support any other payment method than the one from Applu. All that remains is to wait and see if the situation is resolved and if the apple company will throw ashes on its head. KoneAfter all, this is not the first time that the European Union has looked into the practices of one of the Western giants and realized that they are not acting in accordance with fair market rules.
The same EU that forced us to accept with legislation the so-called tolerance of refugees even without the right to asylum?
The one who deprived us of sovereignty will now be interested in practices Apple Pay?
Pro simpler: a country that will not have the right to decide who to let on its territory and who not is screwed with/without Apple pay foul practice, and it's the very last thing she'll be interested in...
I don't understand at all how the UK took so long with that performance
Wherever the union goes...
She gets involved in everything, she orders everything and she doesn't care what people think about it at all..
After all, no one is forcing anyone to pay Apple pay, it is the free will of each of us and the union should not interfere at all..
So why can't I? appto use nfc another application when we already have a mouthful of freedom?
For safety ?