Sources: PayPal, Epic, and others voiced concerns to DOJ as it signaled a preference to settle its Apple antitrust suit with a deal focusing on interoperability
THE SO WHAT
If the Apple antitrust case resolves around “interoperability,” platform economics may shift at the protocol edges rather than via a clean unbundling. App and payment providers should be drafting concrete asks now — APIs, defaults, routing — instead of waiting for a vague settlement to land.
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