Margrethe Vestager's Nagging iPhone Helps Put Apple Pay on Antitrust Radar

  • Antitrust commission has started preliminary probe of service
  • EU seeking feedback from rival payment providers on market
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Margrethe Vestager’s iPhone has been nagging her to install Apple Pay. Now she’s checking if those prompts are a problem for other payment providers.

In an interview with Bloomberg on Friday, Vestager confirmed that regulators are taking a closer look at potential competition issues, describing alerts she’s seen to set up Apple Pay on her own handset.