Apple’s monopoly on certain issues is certainly debatable. A few months ago, the App Store was directly targeted after a tough lawsuit with Epic Games. Today, order to go to court in the payment system of the apple brand. Apple Pay is the only payment method to make contactless payments from your iPhone today.
A new lawsuit has therefore been filed by law firm Hagens Berman. The latter specifically blames Apple Don’t let other third-party payment systems thrive on iPhones. This law firm is quite well known on the other side of the Atlantic. They are the winners of two high-profile antitrust lawsuits brought against Apple recently. This trial is very important because May force Apple to open its iPhone to other third-party payment systems.
New antitrust case for Apple
With this trial, the highly respected law firm Cupertino hopes to force his firm to open up to third-party solutions that already exist. According to them, competition is not fair and other payment services will also have the right to offer their services on an iPhone. Technologies that currently allow contactless payments from an iPhone are not currently open to other systems and only Apple has a solution.
A reality that prevents competition but prevents competition especially forcing other financial institutions to pay huge fees. According to Affinity Credit Union, to do this “More than 4,000 banks using Apple Pay pay around $1 billion a year in feesThe class action lawsuit was filed by Affinity Credit Union, and the lawsuit will continue in federal court in San Francisco.
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Source : Bloomberg.com
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