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Your reactions are amusingly similar to reactions people had to touchscreen phones before the touchscreens became good. Yes, of course, take away my keyboard, I
by jarek 14y ago
Your reactions are amusingly similar to reactions people had to touchscreen phones before the touchscreens became good. Yes, of course, take away my keyboard, I'll just type my BBMs on shitty glass! Those damn touchscreens, a solution in search of a problem.
As a point of interest I can buy food with NFC within a 12 minute walk, and I don't even have an NFC phone.
- fleitz 14y agoYes, you've hit the nail on the head, my reactions to NFC before it became good is the same reaction I had to touchscreens before they became good. The reason why the iPhone was revolutionary wasn't because it had a touch screen it was because it didn't suck. When NFC stops sucking I'll stop saying it sucks. I thought bump was awesome too, then I realized how inconvenient it was. I could hand you a business card, or I could fiddle with my phone, show you how to download the app, etc. NFC is bump with out the bumping. It's still too fiddly. The iPaq, Newtown, Palm Pilot, and the Android G1 were solutions in search of a problem just like the current incantation of NFC is.
- jarek 14y ago> When NFC stops sucking I'll stop saying it sucks. Have you used a mainstream credit card NFC payment system such as Paypass or Paywave? What did you think sucked about it? Have you used a mobile device NFC payment system such as Google Wallet? What did you think sucked about it?