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What took so long?

• deleted 9y ago
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• astrodust 9y ago
  Standards, plus thinking Low-Power BlueTooth might supplant it.
  • spilk 9y ago
    And probably paranoia that it would interfere with Apple Pay
    • djrogers 9y ago
      Apple Pay uses NFC - how would it interfere?
      • giobox 9y ago
        I suspect spilk is referring to concerns Apple will probably have had internally about rival payment platforms using the iPhone NFC hardware to process payments instead of Apple Pay. I'd be extremely surprised if debates about this didn't come up when they were deciding how to build the public API for the feature, and is probably a huge factor in the API being read only and not supporting card emulation, for now.
  • giobox 9y ago
    I'd almost completely forgotten Apple tried to push their iBeacon standard, arguably in competition to NFC in many ways. If I'm honest, my expectations for NFC lighting the world on fire with iOS support have been severely tempered by the huge number of articles/businesses/startups that proclaimed iBeacons where the next big thing. I've still never encountered them in the wild outside of Apple stores or friends who bought iBeacon hardware for hacking personal projects. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBeacon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBeacon
• MBCook 9y ago
  Some core group obviously cared enough Apple decided it was in their interest. I'd be interested in knowing who it was. Option 2: they plan to start using it themselves in future products for pairing instead/with BTLE or maybe for some sort of in-store display.