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Passbook and NFC
- caller9 14y agoPassbook can't read data from touching things. It could also never transmit a Geo intent to my car GPS using a cheap IC on both sides. Payment and loyalty cards aren't the whole story, but Japan and others had no problem doing this ten years ago.
- mpclark 14y agoPassbook and NFC exist on different layers. The exciting prospect that Passbook holds is as a wrapper -- a mobile wallet -- that can ultimately include things that work via NFC, when at some point the API is extended to do so.