{"id":91482,"date":"2024-04-19T19:53:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T19:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/you-may-not-need-apple-pay-to-tap-and-pay-with-your-eu-iphone-soon\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T19:53:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T19:53:59","slug":"you-may-not-need-apple-pay-to-tap-and-pay-with-your-eu-iphone-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/you-may-not-need-apple-pay-to-tap-and-pay-with-your-eu-iphone-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"You may not need Apple Pay to tap and pay with your EU iPhone soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Apple could soon let developers in the European Union use its tap-to-pay technology. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/apples-offer-open-up-tap-and-go-tech-be-approved-by-eu-next-month-sources-say-2024-04-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report from <em>Reuters<\/em><\/a> reveals that EU regulators could sign off on Apple\u2019s proposal to open the payment system next month, putting a two-year-long legal battle to rest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">In 2022, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/2\/23048116\/apple-pay-eu-antitrust-nfc-payment-wallet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Commission accused Apple<\/a> of abusing \u201cits dominant position in markets for mobile wallets.\u201d It claimed Apple prevented third-party payment apps from using the iPhone\u2019s NFC (near-field communication) hardware \u201cto the benefit of its own solution,\u201d Apple Pay. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">The European Commission announced earlier this year that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/1\/19\/24043965\/apple-iphone-nfc-payments-open-up-third-party-developers-european-union-antitrust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple committed to allowing<\/a> third-party payment providers to freely use the iPhone\u2019s NFC capabilities. Apple\u2019s proposal would also give developers access to Face ID for user authentication and let iPhone users set third-party apps as their default payment option, <em>Reuters<\/em> reports. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">The Commission is reportedly expected to accept Apple\u2019s offer in May, but it has asked Apple to make some changes first. If approved, the proposal would remain in place for 10 years. We might not see these changes outside the EU, however, as Apple still hasn\u2019t confirmed whether it will open NFC to developers located elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/4\/19\/24135095\/apple-iphone-nfc-eu-payments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple could soon let developers in the European Union use its tap-to-pay technology. A report from Reuters reveals that EU regulators could sign off on Apple\u2019s proposal to open the payment system next month, putting a two-year-long legal battle to rest. In 2022, the European Commission accused Apple of abusing \u201cits dominant position in markets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-91482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}