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0 pointscriddell8mo ago0 comments

Until your employer or government requires a side-loaded app for you to do something that you need to do.

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Your employer can already require you install an app that isn’t from the App Store, through the enterprise developer program.

cosmic_cheese8mo ago

Or you end up with companies (like Wal-mart) that decide that they don’t want to accept Apple Pay and become payment processors themselves, requiring you to install their app to do phone/watch payments. Congrats, you now need a whole boquet of payment apps and we’re back to it being easier to use physical credit cards. For some of these things, the consolidation was the whole point.

whstl8mo ago

Since Walmart keeps popping up in other comments, I'll do devil's advocate using the exact same argument other people used:

If you don't want to buy on Walmart and their custom payment system, then just go to a competitor.

With that said: this is an unrealistic scenario. Walmart doesn't pay the famous 30% to ApplePay, only a regular CC-like fee (probably less). Also, physically they can just accept contact payments where they don't interact with Apple but it still works with the iPhone wallet. Online, they can just use credit cards instead of ApplePay, which iPhones have autofill for, and probably not lose much.

cosmic_cheese8mo ago

That only works if competitors aren’t doing the same exact thing.

There’s also situations where you don’t have a choice. In many parts of the US the only reasonably accessible store (and sometimes grocery store) is a Walmart.

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ghusto8mo ago

Conversely, we can _not_ open up our bootloaders in Android because banking apps then refuse to run on an "insecure" OS. Of course we'd have to put aside the fact that our computers can access the same banking features through a web browser.

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wilsonnb38mo ago

Your employer can already require you install an app that isn’t from the App Store, through the enterprise developer program.

cosmic_cheese8mo ago

whstl8mo ago

Since Walmart keeps popping up in other comments, I'll do devil's advocate using the exact same argument other people used:

If you don't want to buy on Walmart and their custom payment system, then just go to a competitor.

cosmic_cheese8mo ago

That only works if competitors aren’t doing the same exact thing.

There’s also situations where you don’t have a choice. In many parts of the US the only reasonably accessible store (and sometimes grocery store) is a Walmart.

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ghusto8mo ago

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