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Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Wallet - FeliCa - iOS - Mobile Payments - NFC

iPhone NFC misinformation alive and well on reddit

Once in a while I get a surge of traffic from reddit and like to see which post was linked and the attached discussion. This was very hard to do […]

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iOS 16 Apple Pay and Wallet Fine Print Features

iOS 16 doesn’t have many big new flashy features. There is the Dynamic Island for iPhone 14 Pro, which I would love to have but I’m holding on to my […]

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Apple Pay Suica recharge security block

JR East online services (Mobile Suica, JRE POINT, Eki-Net), along with many other online services that have accounts with credit cards, have been inundated with phishing attacks since the Russia-Ukraine […]

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Recharge your recharge, the winner/loser debate doesn’t mean jack in the post-Apple Pay Japanese payments market

I love articles like this one. It’s fun examining how the writer, freelancer Meiko Homma, takes old news bits, worn-out arguments and weaves them into a ‘new’ narrative with a […]

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iOS 16 Wallet: expanding the Apple Pay experience, aka Suica auto-charge for the rest of us

iOS 15 added big new features to Wallet, expanding digital keys from cars to include home, office and hotels and ID in Wallet driver licenses for the first time. There […]

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Apple Pay Enhanced Fraud Prevention

Apple Wallet VISA card users started receiving ‘Enhanced Fraud Prevention’ notifications on 2022-04-22 that outlined changes how Apple shares ‘fraud prevention assessments’ with payment card networks based on analyzed information […]

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