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Meanwhile idiot Apple sits on their NFC api which can do all the same things as Android, except they're idiots and keep it to themselves. Meanwhile we struggle
by coldcode 10y ago
Meanwhile idiot Apple sits on their NFC api which can do all the same things as Android, except they're idiots and keep it to themselves. Meanwhile we struggle to get iBeacons to do anything even remotely useful to us.
- heypiotr 10y agoActually, we did a bunch of testing at Estimote and we strongly suspect that the NFC in iPhones is just the "passive" variety, the same that's being put into contactless cards and the new Proximity Beacon => it's not capable of scanning other passive tags. Unlike the Androids, which are "active", i.e., can power the passive tags through induction & scan them. So it might actually be a hardware limitation, not just Apple's reluctance to open up the API.