Over the last few years, Apple has come under increasing regulatory pressure to open up its walled garden to competitors and third-party developers. The latest casualty is the near-field communications (NFC) tech that powers features like Apple Pay, with Apple pledging to the European Commission (EC) that it will permit third-party developers to use this technology.
In a new press release, EC regulators have announced that Apple has agreed to a range of changes lasting for the next ten years across the European Union (EU) bloc. The changes are legally binding on Apple, too.
