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No NFC, very disappointing. I guess mobile payments will be delayed another year?
by isaacwaller 14y ago
No NFC, very disappointing. I guess mobile payments will be delayed another year?
- andrewmunsell 14y agoWell, to be fair, I'm not exactly sure where I'd use NFC since no where around where I live has NFC terminals. It's only the transit system... Barcodes at least work at Starbucks and the Airport, among other places.
- trimbo 14y agoNot sure where you live but this may help: http://www.mastercard.us/mobile/paypass-locator.html http://www.mastercard.us/mobile/paypass-locator.html
- untog 14y agoI know this is a somewhat inaccurate comparison, but no-one (and by that I mean major brands, etc) had mobile apps until Apple made a phone that allowed them. If Apple made an NFC-enabled iPhone companies could see reason to jump on the bandwagon.
- andrewmunsell 14y agoI'm sure it would, but it's not a huge loss IMO. It'll come eventually and I'll miss not being able to do things like the Nexus Q + NFC Android phone pairing, but oh well.
- joenathan 14y agoChicken meet egg.
- tlrobinson 14y agoIt's a bit of a chicken and egg problem. If Apple were to include NFC in iPhone you can bet adoption would start taking off soon after.
- runako 14y agoIn my area, Square and LevelUp are pretty much solving the mobile payments "problem." I say "problem" because in every situation where I use Square, I also have a credit card handy (using my credit card is not really a problem). If I were to buy an iPhone 5, NFC would be the feature I would be guaranteed not to use. There's simply no vendors who are NFC-enabled anywhere near me. I'm not sure I've ever seen an NFC-enabled vendor anywhere, for that matter.