Apple Pay

In the shadow of the antitrust laws | The DeanBeat

Game developers dwell in the shadow of the giants. It almost sounds like a dramatic setting for a video game.

This week, we’ve seen more of that. Apple just agreed to end its monopoly on its iOS platform for payment services in the European Union. It will now allow payment companies to use the tech behind Apple pay to create rival payment services as part of a settlement with EU regulators.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.