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This will remain the case as long as Sony continues to charge Android manufacturers heavy licensing fees for the FeliCa chip needed for Suica/Pasmo. However, m
by decimalenough 5mo ago
This will remain the case as long as Sony continues to charge Android manufacturers heavy licensing fees for the FeliCa chip needed for Suica/Pasmo.
However, major Japanese cities are increasingly allowing credit card tap to pay for transport, Osaka Metro is already 100% on board and Tokyo has started trials. There's a long tail of minor companies that will likely take forever though.
- qmarchi 5mo agoTokyo Metro, Toei, Keikyu, and others have rolled it out across a significant chunk of their lines at this point. You can get to a significant portion of the network... So long as you don't have to take a JR train. My only complaints about Contactless Cards from Visa/Mastercard/etc. Is that they're significantly slower than FeliCa. I can sprint through a gate with my Pasmo; I have to stop with my Visa. For Visa, the closest transaction processing happens in Colorado. So they're slooooooow. Disclaimer: Fmr Visa, current PayPay employee. I hate payments.