Well that’s a nice way to solve a iPhone X Suica NFC problem: upgrade to iPhone 11. Suica performance on Apple A12 Bionic and A13 Bionic iPhone models is a […]
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Apple Global NFC Lineup 2019
With the removal of iPhone 7 and Apple Watch Series 2, the new 2019 iPhone and Apple Watch lineup on the Apple Store is finally global NFC across the board. […]
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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 […]
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Perception and Reality
I like writing but am no writer, so I prescribe to the ‘if you’re not a sharpshooter shoot lots of bullets’ school of wannabes. When the Financial Times, “The painful […]
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7-Eleven Japan Kills 7pay QR
After the rocky start and security meltdown of 7-Eleven’s 7pay QR Code payment service launch on July 1, the service suffered from an endless parade of mishaps and mistakes, such […]
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Financial Times Dissin’ Japan again: The painful path of curing Japan of its cash addiction
The UK media has a thing about Japan. Japan must always be portrayed as ‘pathetic’. Pathetic losers, pathetically isolated, pathetically out of step, arrogant, etc. Does this make UK readers […]