Standard business practice. Every company create their own proprietary stuff and try to make them the standard via lobbying etc, then earn money from other companies when their stuff becomes the standard.
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A Google search for "France phone camera" only gives this posted link and dailymail.co.uk article, both of which are not really trustworthy sources, IMO.
So I'm gonna go with "this is very possibly fake news".
Not really unlimited battery life tho, you'll have to sharpen it once in a while.
I initially left the official Mastodon app for Moshidon because of the UI, but damn, now it's time to switch back. Looks slick af.
I don't think so. These are heavily regulated and that's why Google Pay/Apple Pay is still not available in all countries after so many years.
So unless your bank allows that, which I doubt they'll, Google Pay is probably the only way to do contactless payment the traditional way.
Unless your country/city has a widely accepted third party payment system that doesn't go through the bank, like a digital wallet that you'll have to top up its credit, then maybe.
That's gotta be part of the reason why he joined Threads. To spite Elong.