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While allowing apps to direct users to their own website for payment might seem fair. It would invite a whole host of security and payment issues that would be outside of Apple’s control, but Apple would still get the blame for them.

Reddit is full of threads with people who had billing issues with Google Fi. Some are out $1,000s for phones promotions that they never got, they are at Google's mercy.

If you ever initiate a chargeback on any of Google services (including Fi), Google will ban all of your Google accounts including gmail and android. A lot of people found this out the hard way.

Imagine Apple banning your iCloud account if you chargeback an Apple Pay transaction, that is what is happening.

All-Purpose Guru said:

Their current painful solution, Walmart Pay, tries to offer convenience for using a debit card, which is not subject to the high prices of credit cards

Your statement is wrong. You can use a credit card with Walmart Pay, do it all the time.

It’s also not a “painful” solution. It’s somewhere in between using a physical credit card and Apple Pay.

The biggest issue with Walmart Pay is that you have to open up the Walmart app & click on Walmart Pay to use it. Once you scan the QR code, it’s actually faster than Apple Pay. On the positive side, all of your receipts are stored in the app, so saves paper and makes for easy returns.

Yes, a full night sleep just in time to be late to work.

rwx9901 said:

I read the Bloomberg report and it seems that evidence is already there that is being done.  Now the government is saying the report is inaccurate?  Come on, man.

The article is mostly right, but it is made to look like China is doing the spying when in reality it is someone else.

Who do we know that has a history of installing spy chips on computers? Hint: Snowden told us.