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iOS supports ICs fine. It has supported Suica since 2017 when I used it instead of the physical card. Forcing use of an app and QR codes does seem like a signi
by 0xCMP 1y ago
iOS supports ICs fine. It has supported Suica since 2017 when I used it instead of the physical card.
Forcing use of an app and QR codes does seem like a significant step back, although I guess it makes paper tickets much easier to implement with the same scanner.
- lxgr 1y agoAndroid, however, does not support them at all unfortunately (at least on phones not targeted to the Japanese market).
- notpushkin 1y agoI’ve read elsewhere in this thread that for Pixel you can flash a Japanese version of the system image and it will enable IC support. Definitely trying it out later.
- lmm 1y agoThe IC card companies got too greedy unfortunately - along with phones not supporting NFC-F if they're not designed for the Japanese market, the readers are also expensive. With various subways starting to introduce credit card contactless payment I suspect it's only a matter of time before IC cards go away.
- notpushkin 1y agoI thought transport companies are the ones doing IC cards? (True for Japanese IC cards, except Pasmo)
- lmm 1y ago> I thought transport companies are the ones doing IC cards? Well, a number of smaller transport companies are turning away from IC cards citing the cost of the equipment. I don't know at which point in the stack the greed is coming in - whether it's the IC committees, Sony with the underlying technology, some other player or all of them at once - but it's happening. JR East can probably sustain Suica for decades but you'll notice they've been making a hard push into traditional credit cards and banking; they've seen which way the wind is blowing.