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  • EU to settle Apple Pay NFC probe after Apple's concessions

    phillyfanatic09phillyfanatic09
    It’s hard to see how consumers benefit from allowing banks to set up their own wallets. It is, however, easy to see how banks benefit.

    It will be interesting to look at Curve’s wallet. Can I put concert tickets, ID cards, boarding passes and other non-financial items into their wallet? If so, will they properly safeguard my information? If not, do I need to use multiple wallets and how do I choose between them?

    For all of this extra headache, I get ???? benefits? Still waiting to hear on that.
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  • EU is reportedly going to fine Apple over failure to comply with the Digital Markets Act

    phillyfanatic09phillyfanatic09
    One wonders if the fines get large enough if Apple would simply abandon Europe as a market. Seems unlikely but if say the EU issued a $100 billion fine - which is just a 100 day non-compliance period - why would Apple do business there?
    ssfe11danoxAlex1Nappleinsideruserzeus423watto_cobra

  • Apple Intelligence & Private Cloud Compute are Apple's answer to generative AI

    phillyfanatic09phillyfanatic09
    anantksundaram said:
    A rather lame, half-baked, underwhelming attempt at AI. 

    A $3000B company with thousands and thousands of developers and a history of spectacular innovations can’t come up with its own AI?
    Where do you get that Apple didn’t come up with its own AI? Yes, you can send requests to ChatGPT but most of the AI features are on-device or Apple’s servers. All of that is Apple designed.
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  • First alternative to Apple Wallet is ready to launch in EU

    phillyfanatic09phillyfanatic09
    Also, I’m American but I can use Apple Pay in Europe or Asia. I’m fairly confident that many European banks wallets will not work in the US unless they tie into Visa or MasterCard - who will take a cut so there goes the whole support your giant banking conglomerate argument.
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  • First alternative to Apple Wallet is ready to launch in EU

    phillyfanatic09phillyfanatic09
    Although I see a few commenters who want to support their banks, I suspect that there will be downsides that detract from the user experience overall. For example, if I have multiple credit and banking cards issued by different companies, do I now need multiple wallets to store them? If so, how do I efficiently use tap-to-pay? A physical card might be easier.

    What about tickets, boarding passes and other non-financial uses for wallets and NFC? Again, I suppose those can go in the Apple Wallet but now I have to ensure the correct wallet is being used.

    This reminds me of WalmartPay and CurrentC where I subpar customer experience is being pushed to benefit another party.
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