foobar9000

avon b7 said:

foobar9000 said:

You have no idea what this will unleash. If it gets to the UK we'll have Barclays trying (again) to shove their garbage NFC solutions down our throats with a toilet scrub. This is a portal to hell 

How would that be done? 

Currently, the only 'forcing' is done by Apple as Apple's solution (with its cut of every transaction) is the only one allowed. 

Once users have choice, how could they be forced to choose one solution over another? 

For example, by making Apple Pay onboarding difficult in one way or another (e.g. manufactured 20 minute wait over the phone) for their cardholders and making bPay much easier to onboard. And before you know it every bank does that and presto, you have a myriad of badly done cr-apps that compete for your NFC chip and take the opportunity to collect more data.
Apple here is like a professional mobster keeping the chaotic and opportunistic petty criminals in check and demanding a cut of the proceeds. It's a racket but the alternative is worse.