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Contactless payment is an EMV standard. Apple didn’t invent anything, they just branded it and set themselves up as a payment processor.  Contactless payments existed for many years before Apple Pay was introduced. The US were trailing the world in payment technologies which is why these things appeared new to Americans. 

jbdragon said:

Apple is not breaking any law.

Isn’t that why they’ve brought a case, to test that?

SpamSandwich said:

Oh, no! Walmart has a monopoly over the products it sells in their stores!

Repeating something irrelevant doesn’t make it more relevant. 

jungmark said:

The market is handling it. Android is "winning", remember? Don't like Apple rules, don't play in their yard. 

... and Apple have to play in the yard of the law. 

commentzilla said:

McDonald's has a monopoly over the products it sells in its stores! Oh no!

If only Apple apps were available in the App Store, this would be a reasonable analogy. 

The rules are the same for everyone, they just want to bypass what makes iOS secure to install their Russian spyware.

But that isn’t the case. Third party developers have to play by the rules and not use custom APIs or undocumented calls, restrictions which Apple don’t have to stick to. 

This is analogous to LEGO creating bricks and allowing third parties to create their own designs based on the available bricks, but they can NEVER make their own bricks, or use LEGO’s secret bricks. A third party would never be able to create anything that was greater than something LEGO could design because only they control what bricks are available.