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Something is going to replace the credit card. If Apple had thrown their weight behind NFC, that would have closed the deal. I give them one more year (one iW
by swamp40 13y ago
Something is going to replace the credit card.
If Apple had thrown their weight behind NFC, that would have closed the deal.
I give them one more year (one iWatch release, and the iPhone 6 release) and then I agree, NFC will be a dead end.
- bratsche 13y agoWhat I meant is, if NFC is the best way to replace credit cards then Apple would want to be in on making that happen, they wouldn't just put the hardware on their devices and leave someone else to implement it. Something like NFC has just been basically a bullet point on Android phones' feature lists, but that's not really Apple's style. They're going to build something to use it on day 1 or they're not going to include it in their device. Maybe they're working on payment stuff, maybe they're not.. but since it's obviously not ready I'm not the least bit surprised that we don't see NFC on Apple devices.
- seanalltogether 13y agoThe cynical side of me says that Apple won't introduce NFC until they can sort out the licensing deals that give them a cut of every transaction.