XIANYOU’s blog post outlining adventures getting Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 NFC to work correctly, is an excellent reminder that Apple Pay does a great service by hiding NFC setting nonsense from iPhone customers. I mean really, is it the user’s job to figure out the ‘secure element position’? Bottoms up. The essential thing is that Google Pay doesn’t play out of the box:
As it turns out, this was because the default NFC processing behavior configuration on the phone was not one that Google Pay supported on my Redmi Note 8 Pro (or at this moment, possibly any non-Pixel 3+ phones).
This is exactly the situation I predicted back when Android Pay became Google Pay. Google doesn’t want to support non-Pixel embedded secure element devices: eSE for Google, HCE for everybody else. It’s going to get real interesting when Google starts shipping Pixel with custom Google silicon, rumored for Pixel 6, along with those Mobile FeliCa multiple secure element domain functions.
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