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Re:Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its fo... by midasuni on Saturday June 12, 2021 @06:12AM (#27483284)
Apple Pay didn’t come out until 2014, the rest of the world was paying with contactless on phones for years before that - Japan from 2004 onwards.

America’s strength is taking what other people do, slapping a flag on it for the lucrative US market, and marketing it globally.

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Re:Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its fo... by cman1444 on Saturday June 12, 2021 @02:08PM (#27486321)
This feels like a straw man argument. It is pretty widely recognized that innovation in the US is ahead of the vast majority of the rest of the world, even Europe. Only China is now challenging the US in that regard. I think that the late adoption of contactless payments by Apple is the exception, not the rule.
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