Examine the Where you can ride transit using Apple Pay support page and you’ll notice that some listed entries have an ‘*Express Mode supported’ tag and some don’t. There is […]
Mobile Payments
Tap to Pay on iPhone in Japan FeliCa questions
The low-key May 10 launch of Tap to Pay on iPhone in Japan follows a year of soon to be coming rumors that indicated FeliCa support. But that didn’t happen. […]
Mobile Payments
Starbucks App Clips: real App Clips for the rest of us?
Despite a lot of launch hype back in 2020, App Clips has been a poster child for highly engineered solutions looking for a problem. Lots of industry folks had been […]
Mobile Transit
The Apple Pay Navigo charm offensive
Apple Pay Navigo is finally here after a very long gestation, a French government dictated delay and EU dictated open NFC Host Card Emulation, just in time for the Paris […]
Mobile Transit
Octopus ditches FeliCa for PBOC
Called it: Octopus announced NFC A HCE Octopus for Android, an HCE version of PBOC 2.0 which is an EMV clone, i.e. no licensing fees to pay to EMVCo, Octopus […]
Japan Journal
Farewell Osawa-kan
My partner loves onsen ryokan, famous onsen ryokan or the special ones that give you great value for the money, wonderful food, wonder service with the personal touch and personality […]