Australian banks change strategy with Apple Pay

The soap opera that the availability of Apple Pay in Australia has become is far from over. The country's banks have always expressed their discomfort over the high fees that Apple charges banks to be able to offer its digital payment platform to bank customers, something that the banks seem to disagree with. But it is not the only problem that faces them, since banks are hell-bent on forcing Apple to offer them access to the NFC chip so that bank applications can offer their digital payment service directly to their customers without having to pay the company at any time.

The latest news coming from Australia, affirm that the banks seem to have put aside Apple's economic demands in the background and that now all they want is for Apple to give them access to the NFC chip, something to which Apple always has been denied since would put the security of your platform at risk. Also, Apple is not an NGO, and if it has added an NFC chip and created a payment platform, it is to get money, not for others to take advantage of it without the company getting any profit.

But the banks claim they are behind Apple to release access to the NFC chip so that consumers have the option to use cards and services compatible with NFC technology they want without being limited to what Apple offers. As if banks weren't the first to take advantage of consumers. The country's competition court must rule again in this regard on whether or not they can legally pressure Apple to release access to this chip to banks, although it had previously ruled on the matter, denying access and giving the reason to Manzana.

Everything seems to indicate that Australian banks are poorly advised and they think that iOS is a platform similar to Android, where any application can access the NFC chip from the terminals. Apple's platform is closed like its operating system, and Apple can do what it wants with it, although it must be recognized that many users would appreciate if Apple offered more freedom when making use of the NFC chip of their devices.


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