Social media is great for exchanging bits of information but terrible when it comes to conveying context. ‘Most of my friends’ and ‘outside of greater Tokyo’ are poor generalizations and […]
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What will Apple do about the 10% iPhone sales drop in Japan?
The writing was on the wall when Docomo dropped the price of iPhone XR shortly after it went on sale. Shortly after that Tim Cook explained the Japanese market situation […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - CASHLESS - Culture Wars - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC-Felica - PASMO - Suica - Transit
The Mobile PASMO Super Suica Challenge (Obsolete)
The recently announced Mobile PASMO has some serious limitations lucidly explained in FeliCa Dude’s ‘Mobile PASMO – something we shouldn’t need‘ reddit post. It shines a light on the unfortunate […]
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Location aware Apple Pay Suica fixes the region setting problem
Changing the iPhone region to add Apple Pay Suica confuses a lot of users. Many are not familiar with region settings and what they do, and it’s far too easy […]
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The Mobile PASMO announcement
Mobile PASMO was announced for Osaifu Keitai compatible Android devices running Android 6 or later, the service due to start in late March. There was speculation the service would launch […]
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Suica joins Coke ON IC, is it worth it?
Coke ON is one more point gimmick app that offers a free beverage for points, bottle top ‘stamps’, earned with purchases via FeliCa/Coke ON IC (Transit IC, Rakuten, nanaco, PiTaPa, […]