gyakuzuki

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   by gyakuzuki 12y ago

   1. NFC was "DOA" until a month ago, according to many including the pro-Apple crowd 2. By turning NFC's fortunes around 180 degrees, more or less singlehandedly, it simultaneously enabled a generation of IoT solutions that
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   by gyakuzuki 12y ago

   Apple just made NFC famous in a way Samsung, Google, and dozens of other OEMs never could. That's all. Also mentions that Apple was not the first to implement NFC ...
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   by gyakuzuki 12y ago

   BLE is fine for very short range connections like body area networks, which is what it was designed for, but this is not the IoT for most of us and BLE is not truly an "IoT" technology in any meaningful sense any more than barcode