Apple's Tap to Pay feature said to face fresh EU antitrust scrutiny
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Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) Tap to Pay feature is coming under an extra round of antitrust scrutiny by the European Union, after the tech giant last year received a formal EU antitrust complaint claiming competition in the market for mobile wallets on iOS devices became restricted, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing a European Commission spokesperson and two people familiar with the matter. 
The tap-to-pay technology, the near field communication chip, was unveiled in February 2022 to let small businesses take credit card payments directly from their iPhone. 
On May 2, the European Commission said it made Apple (AAPL) aware of its preliminary view that it "abused its dominant position in markets for mobile wallets on iOS devices. By limiting access to a standard technology used for contactless payments with mobile devices in stores, ... Apple restricts competition in the mobile wallets market on iOS."
Now the EU is assessing the availability of payments solutions across mobile devices as alternatives to Cupertino, California-based Apple's (AAPL) communications chip, the two people told Bloomberg. 
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