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John Rich on 11 Sep 14This made me realize two things: Apple just destroyed the carriers attempts to get a cut of the multibillion $ digital payment pie (in the original NFC vision the carriers were the gatekeepers of the encrypted transactional data and wanted their pound of flesh). Apple Pay sets new NFC security levels (tokenization and biometric I.D.) that all other OEM's and Android will have to scramble to equal.