EU antitrust bureaucrats are searching for extra info on Apple Pay, the corporate’s cellular cost system, the European Fee stated on Wednesday.
The EU competitors watchdog final yr accused Apple of limiting rivals’ entry to its tap-and-go expertise, Close to-Discipline Communication (NFC), used for cellular wallets, making it troublesome for them to develop rival providers on Apple gadgets.
“We will affirm the sending of requests for info,” a fee spokesperson stated, whereas declining to supply particulars.
The fee’s request for info to rivals and retailers is uncommon because it comes three months after Apple defended itself at a Feb. 14 listening to.
The regulator, which may tremendous Apple as much as 10% of its world turnover if discovered responsible of breaching antitrust guidelines, usually points selections after such hearings.
MacDailyNews Take: This newest EU bureaucratic meddling may finally have an effect on what occurs when an iPhone or Apple Watch is introduced close to an NFC reader the place, at present, the Apple Pay and Apple Pockets interface robotically seems. Now, Apple may have so as to add a setting to permit to customers to set this to permit third occasion contactless cost programs as a substitute.
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