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Apple may have to allow 3rd-party app payments and Apple Pay rivals in UK

Apple may have to allow 3rd-party app payments and Apple Pay rivals in UK | Photo shows an Apple Pay transaction

Britain’s antitrust regulator has proposed forcing Apple to allow developers to link to third-party payment options to purchase apps and subscriptions outside of the App Store.

The proposal would specifically ban Apple from using the same forms of “malicious compliance” it has tried in both the US and EU …

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Apple Wallet’s Digital ID feature could potentially have a major new use case soon

Last year, Apple debuted Digital ID on iPhone, allowing users to use their US passport as identification in Apple Wallet. Apple’s been rolling out drivers licenses in Wallet slowly over the past few years, but that’s on a state-by-state basis. Digital ID is universal, allowing anyone with a passport to use it.

Of course, you can use it at TSA checkpoints in airports – but Apple had a bigger scope in mind: digital age and identity verification. While not yet confirmed, it’s possible that we could see a first major implementation of this quite soon, in Claude.

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