Dear Apple Pay UI Team Members, You seem to be having some trouble redesigning Apple Pay Suica transit cards in iOS 12.2 and iOS 12.3. As a daily Apple Pay […]
Apple - Culture Wars
Reiwa Era Support in iOS 12.3
It’s nice to know that Apple is going to provide Japanese users with Reiwa Era support in iOS 12.3. It would have been extra nice if that support could have […]
Apple - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - Suica
More Apple Pay Suica Wallet UI Tweaks for iOS 12.3
I wrote in my iOS 12.2 review that the new Wallet changes felt unfinished, and I was right. The constant Wallet UI tweaking of iOS 12.2 continues unabated in iOS […]
Apple - Maps - Signage
Hurry up Apple, Zenrin still talking with Google Maps to supply Japan data
After Google dropped premier Japanese map data supplier Zenrin in March, Google Maps Japan quality took a nose dive as steep as Zenrin’s stock price. Nikkei reports a comment from […]
Apple - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - Archived - Suica
SuicaEng vs Suica App Reviews and UI Design (obsolete)
NoticeSuicaEng is obsolete, replaced by Wallet app that gained direct Suica and PASMO card add functionality in iOS 13 with further transit card support added in iOS 15 Wallet. SuicaEng […]
Japanese Typography
CSS and the Death of Traditonal Japanese Typography
It’s an open secret that Apple doesn’t really care that much about advanced typography, they just say they do. The laughably amateur vertical text support feature in Pages app makes […]