Apple’s decision to offer Apple Pay EMV style Express Transit as a iOS 13 feature when adding cards to Wallet may not have been a good idea after all, especially […]
5G Contactless Payments Part 1: Fast QR vs Ultra Wide Band enhanced Mobile FeliCa and MIFARE
Payment empire players envision a brave new world of 5G enhanced contactless payment solutions, seen in recent moves by JR East and other major Japanese transit companies to replace expensive […]
Assumptions
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]