In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a new transit gate alarm sound going around. It sounds like this: Yeah, that sound. I hear it more and more these days but […]
Mobile Payments - Transit
State of Suica 2023
It’s time to take a look at Suica and Japanese mobile transit ticketing developments expected for 2023. The Suica transit platform and Transit IC partners will introduce some big and […]
Mobile Payments
Mobile payments don’t solve the wallet mess, they only make it worse
Way back when Tim Cook first unveiled Apple Pay, the main sales point was the convenience of doing away with messy wallets. My mom’s wallet for example was always stuffed […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Wallet - FeliCa - iOS - Mobile Payments - NFC
iPhone NFC misinformation alive and well on reddit
Once in a while I get a surge of traffic from reddit and like to see which post was linked and the attached discussion. This was very hard to do […]
Mobile Payments
VISA blocking foreign issue cards for select Japanese in-app and online payments
(Non-JP VISA now works with Apple Pay Suica, latest VISA situation update here) When foreign issue VISA cards in Wallet stopped working for Apple Pay In-App Suica and PASMO recharge […]
CASHLESS - Mobile Payments - QR Code Payments
The open loop mobile connectivity challenge
The recent additions of stera transit (Visa-SMBC-Nippon Signal-QUADRAC) open loop test systems in Kyushu covering Fukuoka metro, Kuamamoto city transit and JR Kyushu expand the VISA Touch transit boutique deeper […]