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At first I was excited, but then I read the docs: > Read only > Only supports NDEF formatted tags > Available only on iPhone 7 and newer Basically, this is
by Kipters 9y ago
At first I was excited, but then I read the docs:
> Read only
> Only supports NDEF formatted tags
> Available only on iPhone 7 and newer
Basically, this is even more crippled than what WP 8.0 did five years ago (and back then I thought it was too crippled to be useful)
- 0x0 9y agoI wonder if there is any technical reason for requiring iPhone 7. I thought iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s also had some kind of NFC hardware present to support Apple Pay.
- adambrenecki 9y agoIIRC, because the payment terminals have their own power source, previous iPhone generations lacked the induction coils necessary to support passive NFC tags. Presumably they were added to the iPhone 7?
- MBCook 9y agoIt could also be some kind of security thing where the 7 was designed to be able to have 3rd party access where the 6/6s would have required the secure enclave to do something risky. Pure guess.
- ClassyJacket 9y agoWell, the Secure Enclave is in every device with a TouchID, so that's the iPhone 5S and newer.
- MBCook 9y agoRight but I mean that perhaps in the iPhone 7 they somehow rejiggered the SE interface in anticipation of doing this. That way the 7 hardware has a very secure way to do this where as since it wasn't planned in the older phones it might not be secure if they tried to provide access from user software. Maybe the NFC reader is attached to a different chip in the 7 that makes this easier/secure than in the older phones.
- Kipters 9y agoYeah, makes sense