Express Transit is the best and most natural way of using Apple Pay. It first came to iPhone Wallet with Suica in 2016, expanding incrementally until finally going wide with […]
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Timeout: a very long transit card transit
It’s been a year since JR Central’s TOICA network was expanded to more stations making Suica-TOICA-ICOCA cross region commuter passes available for the very first time. Regular transit cards are […]
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Hidden Assumptions
Jonathan Seybold said it best in his Computer History Museum interview video, many arguments can be easily demolished by pulling out the hidden assumptions. In our attention span challenged social […]
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UWB Touchless Express Transit and Apple Pay for iOS 15?
A recent sudden surge of hits from Hong Kong accessing my December 2019 UWB Touchless Mobile FeliCa post seemed odd. I dug around and it appears that Hong Kong MTR, […]
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Octopus 2.0
The Apple Pay Octopus launch in June 2020 marked the end of an era of Octopus as the exclusive Hong Kong MTR home grown transit platform, and the start of […]
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SmartGo Staple: smart Mobile Suica solution for COVID era business travel
As more companies transition work style away from daily commuting to a central office to telework with direct business trips from home, there is less need for commuter passes but […]