<story><title>Apple announces Apple Card credit card</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/25/18277417/apple-pay-credit-card-announcement-goldman-sachs-event-2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaysea</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t thing it is healthy to have big entities like this control fundamental services like payment processing. How long before the opaque governance of the App Store is applied to their payments offering? How long before activists start making this a new vector for deplatforming? Apple also announced a news offering (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techradar.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;apple-news-plus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techradar.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;apple-news-plus&lt;/a&gt;) and I think the same concerns apply there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ralusek</author><text>Look no further than the recent issue where Patreon competitor Subscribestar had payment processors Stripe and PayPal stop processing their payments for _political_ disagreements with the purported beneficiaries of the donations through the platform. PayPal said that it was actually one of the underlying payment processors, and it was suspected to be MasterCard.&lt;p&gt;That incident was the first time I&amp;#x27;ve ever taken the need for alternative payment processors very seriously.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple announces Apple Card credit card</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/25/18277417/apple-pay-credit-card-announcement-goldman-sachs-event-2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaysea</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t thing it is healthy to have big entities like this control fundamental services like payment processing. How long before the opaque governance of the App Store is applied to their payments offering? How long before activists start making this a new vector for deplatforming? Apple also announced a news offering (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techradar.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;apple-news-plus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techradar.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;apple-news-plus&lt;/a&gt;) and I think the same concerns apply there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eridius</author><text>Apple said they&amp;#x27;ve engineered the service such that Apple does not know what you&amp;#x27;re purchasing or even what vendors you&amp;#x27;re shopping at. If Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t know this, they can&amp;#x27;t very well apply arbitrary rules to it.</text></comment>