It’s about time. Somebody from outside Japan finally took in the big picture of the Japanese Transit Platform model and wrote a business outline of it in English. Egon Terplan […]
Apple Pay Suica - iPhone - NFC-Felica - Suica - Suica App - Transit - watchOS
iOS 12.1.2 Apple Pay Suica Performance Issues
No sooner than Apple issued the iOS 12.1.2 update that JR East pushed out a Suica system notice in their iOS Suica App: When Suica Balance Fails to Update. I […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - iPhone - NFC-Felica - Suica - Transit
Apple Pay Drove FeliCa Contactless Growth in 2018
The CreditCard no Yomimono site (CCY) has collected and listed all the FeliCa contactless card issued to date numbers released by Japanese companies in 2018 into one convenient table. WAON […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Transit - EMV - iPhone - NFC-Felica - QR Code Payments - Transit - watchOS
More Apple Pay Octopus
UPDATE: Apple Pay Octopus is coming with iOS 13 Note: For simplicity and convenience I have migrated and merged older Octopus related posts here. All new Octopus related developments will […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - EMV - iPhone - NFC-Felica - PASMO - QR Code Payments - Suica - Suica App - Transit - watchOS
Apple Pay Japan Market Info Update December 2018
The Bank of Japan posted presentation material from the 7th FinTech Forum held November 30. The Rakuten presentation has some contactless payment market data for Japan that is worth a […]
Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - iPhone - NFC-Felica - SmartEX - EXPRESS - Suica - Suica App - Transit - watchOS
iOS 12.1.1 Suica Express Transit Performance
Apple has never issued an iOS update that specifically mentions Suica or Express Transit Card performance, so each update becomes a guessing game of what’s fixed and what’s not. iOS […]