Margrethe Vestager's nagging iPhone helps put Apple Pay on antitrust radar


  • TECH
  • Monday, 21 Oct 2019

EU officials have been seeking industry feedback on how Apple Inc devices may favour Apple Pay over other payment solutions, weeks after they quizzed companies over how Facebook’s Libra association might curb members or squeeze rivals. — EPA

Margrethe Vestager’s iPhone has been nagging her to install Apple Pay. Now she’s checking if those prompts are a problem for other payment providers.

In an interview with Bloomberg on Oct 18, Vestager confirmed that regulators are taking a closer look at potential competition issues, describing alerts she’s seen to set up Apple Pay on her own handset.

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