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Some recent comments on The Mac Observer\u2019s Daily Observations Podcast led to this debate on Apple\u2019s relationship to its competitors with\xa0Bryan Chaffin,\xa0Kelly Guimont, and John Martellaro.\xa0In Part 1, we frame the question of whether Apple has obligations to its competitors to level the playing field when it comes to access to the iPhone as both a services platform and as a payment platform, and whether Apple\u2019s financial resources should be considered in answering the questions.

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Bryan Chaffin\xa0began using Apple computers in 1983 in a high school BASIC programming class. He started using Macs in 1990 when the Kinko\u2019s guy taught him how to use Aldus PageMaker, finally buying a Power Computing Power 100 in 1995. Bryan is the cofounder of\xa0The Mac Observer\xa0and currently serves as Afternoon Editor. He has contributed to MacAddict and MacFormat magazines, and coauthored Incredible iPad Apps for Dummies with Bob \u201cDr. Mac\u201d LeVitus. You can find out more about Bryan at his personal site,\xa0GeekTells, and\xa0follow him on\xa0Twitter.

Kelly Guimont\xa0is a longtime Apple geek, sitting down (on a telephone book) in front of an Apple IIe in 1983. She can still hear the ticking of the ImageWriter. Thanks to the miracle of the adjustable leg desk, she no longer needs the phonebook. Kelly writes for\xa0The Mac Observer, is the host of the\xa0Daily Observations Podcast, is co-host of\xa0The Aftershow,\xa0and yet still has more to say which she saves for\xa0Twitter\xa0and Micro.blog.

John Martellaro\xa0\xa0is the Senior Editor for Reviews and Analysis at\xa0The Mac Observer, and host of the \xa0Background Mode\xa0podcast. \xa0Previously,he has worked for NASA, Lockheed Martin Astronautics,the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and\xa0Apple. At Apple, he worked as a Senior Marketing Manager, a Federal Account Executive and a High Performance Computing manager. His interests include all things Apple, chess, science fiction and astronomy.You can follow John on\xa0Twitter, and hear his insightful interviews with tech and science luminaries on his podcast, Background Mode.

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