It's obviously hard to get excited about online payment methods, but this is the most important thing to happen at the interface between fintech, big tech, and competition that I can think of.
Press conference here.
Press release here.
Lucky us, Natasha the Great covered it, here.
I wonder how Australian banks - and the @acccgovau - are taking this news, eight years later (from @wavesblog archives https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/apple-is-closed-and-controlling-say-banks-as-iphone-dispute-heats-up-20161017-gs4590 - interestingly also, in retrospect, who their economic consultant was.
