Re: I agree
"Apple’s practices on their own hardware is surely their own business..."
And this is where you're wrong. The moment you bought it, it's not Apple's Hardware. It's yours!
You decide what goes on the Phone and what you do with it. Not Apple.
If Apple decided that people were only allowed to put their Phone in their left side jeans pocket, would that be acceptable to you? Of course not. So Apple saying that only Apple Pay can use NFC should be viewed the same way.
Remember all of the Apps within the Walled Garden of Cupertino undergo full screening, so it's not like you're suddenly going to end up with malware slurping your account through some dodgy App off the Appstore. But maybe you want to use your Banks direkt App over NFC instead of ApplePay, because of some new deal or whatever. Or maybe you want to use the NFC for something else (for example, unlocking a door using your phone, just like a badge reader), at present you cant because Apple has locked it. But it's your phone, so why cant you, if you want to, use that NFC for other things.
What you do with your phone is up to you, try not to forget that. Any time a company tries to tell you what you can do with the items they produced, but which you paid for, then you should be telling them to pi$$ right off. Once you've paid for it, it's yours. Dont forget that...
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