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rob53 said:

People need to understand that Apple Pay is more than just the backend charging of a credit card. It includes the secure identification of the user and very specific transmission of the minimum amount of data to and from the user and credit card company. Take the secure enclave portion out of the process and it's no more secure than the CurrentC garbage. NFC is also just part of the process but opening that portion to third party usage could easily conflict with other portions of Apple Pay. If the banks want to create their own (unsecure) process they can do it without NFC capabilities. I don't believe Apple is required to open up all capabilities to all developers. 

Yup. Apple Pay is good enough for ANZ (to whom I've just jumped ship), I don't see why the other banks can't use it. But of course it's not about competition, or user choice or security, it's simply about the per¢entages.

"At a press conference on Monday, Samsung officials said exhaustive tests on tens of thousands of devices and batteries had ruled out any problems with the device’s hardware or software."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/23/samsung-blames-faulty-batteries-for-causing-galaxy-note-7-fires

Hmm. The battery is not part of the device's hardware?

Good news. Australian banks, ie. the 'Big Four', already have too much power as it is. Looking forward to the inevitable Royal Commission.

As wookie above says, all these buildings whilst are indeed 'of a piece' and part of the great success of Federation Square as a public space is the design of the buildings, the spaces they create within and between them and the way the buildings frame the city behind it. The stage and screen on the side of the building that would be demolished in this proposal are used regularly for public events and performances and have become part of public life here.

I can't see this going through in the form as stated in the article, Fed Square as a project was too contentious and too expensive to just tear down one whole part of it. As much of a user/fan of Apple products as I am, I'd rather not destroy part of a public space that many people use and enjoy on a daily basis. Though I daresay the site would like a high-profile and secure tenant to help cover operational costs. If Apple were to want to modify the existing structure - say with part of an Apple glass cube bursting out one side of it, for example - then I could find that acceptable.

Hopefully Apple go even harder at privacy and encryption in their next hardware and iOS/OS releases, before the govt forces backdoors on everything.