It was just a year ago when JR East dropped the Suica bomb at the NFC Forum Japan meeting. In his presentation, JR East IT/Suica Operations Center manager Hajime Yamada […]
Apple Pay + Wallet
Apple Pay Japan 8 Months in: Winners and Losers
Japanese IT journalist Junya Suzuki continues his excellent coverage of all things contactless and Apple Pay Japan. In his latest piece for Business Insider Japan he looks at the […]
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Apple Pay Suica Card Deposit Refunds (U)
When you purchase a physical Suica card from a JR East station ticket machine, the minimum purchase price is ¥1,000. ¥500 goes to the Suica ‘card deposit’, the remaining ¥500 […]
Apple Pay Suica
The Suica that Refreshes
The JR East Suica penguin character is a clever sly cultural reference to pre-war, and post-war, European remarks that Japan is an island full of ‘busy little penguins’. Laughing at […]
macOS
I Say Normalization, You Say Normalisation
Howard Oakley continues his excellent coverage of Apple File System (APFS) in macOS High Sierra. Read his latest analysis of runtime vs. native normalization and other issues in High Sierra […]
Apple Pay + Wallet
QUICPay+ vs. QUICPay
The arrival of au Wallet PrePaid in Apple Pay introduces a small wrinkle in the Apple Pay Japan mix for store purchases. The prepaid card exclusively uses the QUICPay+ network. It is […]
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