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LionTamer | 2 years ago

I’m an iPhone user so I don’t have much to say about Google Pay, but what is wrong with Apple Pay? I personally find it to be one of the best niceties added to the iPhone in the past few years (or at least widely adopted in the US in the past few years, not sure when Apple Pay was launched).

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jqpabc123|2 years ago

but what is wrong with Apple Pay?

I don't use Apple Pay but I suspect the same is wrong as with Google Pay --- it requires you to surrender your identity and financial info to a company that is monetizing your privacy for profit.

There are privacy laws that prevent your bank from selling your financial history and details to those who might want to target you.

These laws don't apply when Google, Apple and cohorts literally extort you to provide access to this info.

Ticketmaster now charges an extra fee if you don't store some event tickets in your Google Wallet --- where Google has full access to them. I suspect something similar is going on with Apple.

CBarkleyU|2 years ago

> it requires you to surrender your identity and financial info to a company that is monetizing your privacy for profit.

As someone who has never owned an Apple device (apart from my work iPhone SE, which I rarely use): I always thought of Apple as a company that I can rather trust with my data. It might be marketing white-washing my brain, but Apple seems to be settled in the selling devices business, not in the "selling data" business.

My point being, "monetizing" my privacy is something that I feel very uneasy about with Google but not with Apple, somehow. The former screams "give us your data, so we can use it --- also you get to use this cool app, that relies on it" whereas the latter seems more like "Give us your data so you can use this cool app that relies on it, but honestly your data isnt that profitable to us".

Somebody please pop my naivity bubble.

ulfw|2 years ago

What is with the hyperbole? "surrender your identity" "monetizing your privacy"

Tell me where Apple Pay does that and how I surrendered my identity.