Technology is hard to cover well in a way that’s clear and easy to understand, that educates and elevates without dumbing down the technology or it’s intended audience. Technology like […]
AWS outage takes down PayPay
The Amazon Web Service outage that started around 1pm August 23 local Japan time took down some PayPay service along with it. Japanese users tweeted about payment and recharge not […]
New Functions for iOS 13 Apple Pay Suica
For some time now I have been scratching my head over the dynamic card feature of Apple Card. I thought that Apple might announce new Apple Pay Wallet features for […]
Bad Dance: EMV Express Transit slows down Apple Pay Suica
The EMV Express Transit option that arrived with iOS 12.3 is completely useless in Japan. Japanese transit companies will never support it because EMV is a poor technology match, not […]
Apple Pay Suica Auto-Charge Confessional
I have a confession to make to my brothers and sisters of the Apple Pay Suica Super Smart Shopping League (Apple Pay 4S): I never used Suica Auto-Charge. Until now. […]
iOS 13: Set up a Suica card in Apple Pay
Up until iOS 12 adding a Suica card to Apple Pay Wallet has been centered around transferring a plastic Suica card. The Apple setup page assumed you already have a […]