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Apple - Apple Pay Octopus - Apple Pay Transit - NFC-Felica - Transit

Last call for Apple Pay Octopus 2019 launch

Apple Pay Octopus was announced in July as ‘coming soon’ with no official indication from Octopus Cards Limited when coming soon would happen. Today is the last day of November, […]

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Apple - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - CASHLESS - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC-Felica - Suica - Suica App - Transit

Touchless walkthrough transit gates coming in 2020?

Mobile Suica has been under a lot of stress this week. The cloud service almost went down under a heavy load on November 26, at the same time the Suica […]

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Fields of Dreams: the endlessly looping open loop vs closed loop transit debate

MacRumors reported that Apple Pay Express Transit support is finally arriving, bit by bit, on the TfL system after being announced back in May. I only noticed the piece because […]

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Apple - CASHLESS - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC-Felica

JAPAN CASHLESS: Cafe Veloce offers 5% cashless rebates

Finally! A cafe chain with JAPAN CASHLESS rebates and 5% at that. Sayonara Starbucks and hello Cafe Veloce, until July 2020 anyway. UPDATE: as always some locations are not onboard […]

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Toyota Wallet: if there must be another Japanese Wallet app, please let it be this

As I have pointed out countless times on this blog, Apple Pay Suica is one of the best Apple Pay services that Apple has hosted on its platform so far. […]

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What’s the difference between iOS 13 Wallet created Suica and SuicaEng?

NoticeSuicaEng is obsolete. It is no longer available on App Store, installed SuicaEng does not launch and should be deleted. The Japanese language only Suica app is still available, but […]

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