Express Transit Suica ruins the Apple Pay experience for using anything else. You want Apple Pay to work that way everywhere but it doesn’t. Most of the time we trudge along using Apple Pay Wallet with face mask Face ID authorization, although the Apple Pay experience on Apple Watch is […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay PASMO - Apple Pay Suica - CASHLESS - Docomo - EMV - FeliCa - Mobile Payments - NFC - Suica
The VISA JP Apple Pay announcement and digital banking wars
MacRumors Sami Fathi: Customers with Visa cards…will be able to add their card to their Wallet on iPhone and Apple Watch. Me: I like MacRumors but the writer here has no idea what the story is or that users have been using these cards in Apple Pay all along for […]
Apple - Apple Pay Suica - Docomo - EMV - FeliCa - NFC - NFC-Felica - QR Code Payments - Suica - Touchless - Transit
A great reality check
I was pleasantly surprised to find some hits coming from a website called limitless possibility, followed the link and discovered a great podcast by Luc-Olivier Dumais-Blais and Yanik Magnan on Japanese transit IC cards, Suica 2 in 1, the new features of FeliCa Standard SD2, Ultra Wideband Touchless and more…things […]
Apple Pay Suica - CASHLESS - Docomo - Mobile Payments - QR Code Payments - Suica
T-POINT? We don’t need no stinkin’ T-POINT
In the ephemeral COVID era we live in assurance don’t come easy, especially with JP cashless market data. Half the fun is taking the crumbs you find, a 1000 person web survey here and there, and seeing what trends you can tease out of it. First of all the usual […]
Docomo - IPv6 - Mobile and Web
NTT Flet’s fails in the Covid traffic crunch
NTT FLET’S internet service has been around forever in many configurations, the latest being Flet’s Hikari ‘optical fiber’. I call it flexible fiber because NTT uses the term Hikari when they should not. My Hikari only comes into the apartment building junction box then branches into each apartment with good […]