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Perhaps a similar situation would be online payment gateways for dealing with credit card transactions.

There are strict guidelines about what you need to do in order to be considered secure [0]. As a result, we don't end up with every man and his dog doing it, but there is sufficient competition compared with the single-player in-store app purchase situation.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_DSS



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