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0 pointsfsflover5y ago0 comments

Why would you allow Apple to decide which bank you must use?

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My bank doesnt support Google Pay so I switched. Life is full of obstacles but we should go around them and not through them. Only person you hurt in your case is yourself. Or you didn't really want to bother with the whole thing anyway so you stopped at the first issue

joshuaissac5y ago

The person you replied to is not the same one from the original story. And there are many reasons to prefer one bank to another; in the poster's case, switching to an Apple-supported bank might have introduced more obstacles to go through than it would have avoided.

rbecker5y ago

> Life is full of obstacles but we should go around them and not through them.

Excellent example of short-term thinking. If everyone followed your advice, Google and Apple would be able to extort any bank in the world, until in addition to their software and ad near-monopolies, they'd also have a banking near-monopoly.

rimliu5y ago

Why would you not allow Apple to decide what banks they want to deal with? If some bank has e.g. bad reputation because of some money laundering or terrorist money scandals, why would a business want to be associated with that?

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