Express Cards on iOS/watchOS have a special place on the Apple Pay platform. First of all there are only 3: Suica was the first to appear with the Apple Pay […]
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Lawson launches first Apple Pay NFC contactless rewards card in Japan
Lawson Japan announced NFC contactless support for the popular Ponta rewards card operated by the Recruit Group starting nationwide on November 7. The Lawson press release explains that iOS 12/watch OS […]
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iOS 12.1 Apple Pay Suica performance issues
Apple engineering closed my January 2018 iOS 11.2.5 Suica error flicker bug report with the release of iOS 12.1 beta 1: “We believe this issue is resolved in the latest […]
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Traveling abroad with Apple Pay NFC switching credit cards
Japanese tech journalist Satoru Nakayama who posted his experience of riding the Shanghai subway with an Apple Pay Express Transit China card loaded on his iPhone earlier, continues his Apple Pay […]
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Global FeliCa vs Galapagos Syndrome QR Codes
Back in the pre-iPhone era Japanese manufactures were busy churning out internet connected, e-wallet capable handsets with high quality cameras (for that time) that most of the western IT media pooh-poohed: […]
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Japan’s economic revival, the cash tax and the contactless payments boom
Anybody who has lived in Japan any length of time knows the economic reality here is rarely reported accurately in the western media. The worn out narratives of the ‘lost […]