On July 11, Apple (quarterly sales at the end of July: US$85.5 billion, up 4.9% year-on-year) made a commitment to the European Commission to open up iPhone contactless payment to competing payment apps. Apple risked a fine of 10% of turnover without this agreement.
Apple will open up the NFC (Near Field Communication) chip and the Secure Element (SE) chip to third-party developers. For the next 10 years, the Group agreed to extend the possibility of initiating payments using third-party...