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  • Banana price issue causes expensive Apple Pay mistake in UK

    Dougie.SDougie.S
    jrg_uk said:
    willett said:
    The “solution” to this is definitely NOT to put an upper limit on tap to pay transactions, as the UK apparently has done.

    To be honest, I’m not sure who is asking for the higher contactless limit. No-one using their phone/watch, for sure, and the Banks don’t seem to be asking for it either.
    I was just going to clarify about contactless limits, glad I refreshed first! Well said.

    I think the new increase to £100 is due to COVID and people not wanting to touch hardware “infected” people may have done just before them. This was the reason for the increase to £45.
    However, a lot of people’s weekly shops are greater than £45 which means they have to enter their pin. The increase from £45 will ensure most people’s shops can be done contactless but still restricting the ability of very large transactions for fraud.

    Also if you make multiple purchases in quick succession, even within the limit, the fraud protections kick in and require pin entry.

    Lastly, fraud is getting less of a problem for VISA and MasterCard due to Apple Pay so they can afford to cover any costs for a potential increase in contactless fraud should that occur.
    elijahg

  • Google's reluctance to add privacy labels to Gmail, other apps might put users at risk [u]...

    Dougie.SDougie.S
    elijahg said:
    anantksundaram said:
    I honestly do not understand this story.  But I have no doubt better minds do. 

    So, what does responding to Google’s warning (and updating) actually do?!
    You can't update, because there is no update. There is no update because Google doesn't want to reveal all its privacy violations in Apple's nutrition labels.
    Exactly. Also the speed they rectified the Out of Date message just shows they could have done the same with the privacy labels… if they really wanted to. Obviously they don’t, as you say, because they don’t want to reveal the extent of the data collection.
    elijahgwatto_cobra

  • Apple's 5G in future iPhones may benefit from mmWave-based object detection

    Dougie.SDougie.S
    So basically Apple are making “you’re holding it wrong” official?
    GeorgeBMac

  • Spotify threatening developers over apps that transfer playlists to other services

    Dougie.SDougie.S
    AppleInsider said:
    As it continues to say Apple "threatens our collective freedoms to listen, create, and connect," Spotify has allegedly begun notifying developers that they can no longer transfer playlists to other services. SongShift reports that it has been told to cease such transfers or risk losing access to the Spotify SDK.

    Apple threatens your freedoms, yet Spotify are the one’s holding your music library hostage. 
    Makes sense...
    jas99DoomFreaksuperklotoncat52

  • Lawsuit alleges Apple blocks cloud gaming apps to stifle Apple Arcade competition

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    cloudguy said:
    foregoneconclusion said:
    LOL...the entirety of the App Store is in competition with Apple Arcade. There's nothing stopping Apple's competitors from funding their own original iOS/iPadOS games and basing a subscription service around it. Microsoft could have created an entire library of iOS/iPadOS games based on flagship IP like Gears of War or Halo or Forza. They just chose not to do it in favor of keeping those games centered around their own OS and hardware offerings. 
    If you think that an iPhone or even an iPad Pro could store - let alone run - a library of modern generation PlayStation or XBox games - Nintendo Switch is a totally different animal - then you don't follow tech apart from the Apple ecosystem. 

    Also, I don't get why the whole "Netflix for games" notion offends so many of you just because Apple decides not to allow it. Anyway this doesn't matter. Microsoft is going to implement this as a PWA just like Amazon did. The only question is whether Google and Nvidia are now going to, and whether PlayStation, Epic and Steam follow suit when their streaming services inevitably launch within the next 2 years.

    Basically by doing this what Apple is doing is increasing and normalizing the adoption of PWAs. Which, of course, is what Google, Microsoft and Amazon have always advocated. Because PWAs will inevitably rely on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform. And also because PWAs make you less dependent on getting third party developers to put an app in your store (Microsoft for Windows 10X and Windows on ARM devices) and it enables cheap devices that don't have enough local processing power to provide a good user experience running premium apps (as many as half the active Android devices including all the Amazon Kindle ones). 
    Do you follow tech news? Because PlayStation launched their streaming service 6.5years ago.
    watto_cobra