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I remember some years ago reading that the iPad Air 2 had NFC, but it was not enabled. Reading this news it seems to me that Apple had planned this feature alre

by usermi 5y ago

I remember some years ago reading that the iPad Air 2 had NFC, but it was not enabled. Reading this news it seems to me that Apple had planned this feature already at that time. Having a this feature integrated to a POS software without the need of a third party device card reader would be fantastic. Small business would benefit a lot from it. I may be wrong, but I think current iPads do not have a NFC chip? So Apple removed it from the hardware later but now it would be beneficial to have it?

RL_Quine 5y ago
Lots of articles you see like about things like that aren't really correct, though I can't speak specifically for the NFC one. For a while there were people campaigning to have the FM radio that was secretly embedded in all iPhones re enabled, not realising that it was a feature of one of the chips apple used for another purpose which simply didn't have the supporting hardware added.