Australian court asks if Apple stifles competition iPhone NFC access
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What you need to know Apple is under scrutiny for its current implementation of NFC on the iPhone. The Australian Parliamentary committee heard the case today in court. Is Apple going antitrust with NFC? On Monday, the Australian Parliamentary committee heard a case that asks the question if Apple is stifling competition with how it currently restricts access to the NFC chip on the iPhone. As reported by ZDNet, Apple`s response to questions from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services argued that Google`s implementation of NFC is less secure than Apple`s current approach. The company says that its current implementation is for the case of privacy and security. `Host Card Emulation (HCE) is a less secure implementation, which was adopted by Android … Apple did not implement HCE because doing so would lead to less security on Apple devices... Google likely selected this implementation because Android software is used in a variety of har...