A while ago Apple Pay just stopped working on my iPhone X. My phone simply hasn’t been detected by any NFC readers I’ve tried. At this point I finally have […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Transit - CASHLESS - EMV - MIFARE - Mobile Payments - NFC - Transit
Blame the Apple Pay Ventra delay on open loop
Washington DC SmarTrip and Greater Los Angeles TAP transit cards both launched on Apple Pay the first week of September within days of each other. They upstaged Apple Pay Ventra […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Transit - EMV - NFC - Transit
Why is MTA OMNY asking Apple to fix Face ID?
MTA is asking Apple to fix Face ID. We all know that using Face ID with face masks sucks but the MTA situation is special. It’s a perfect storm of […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - Mobile Payments - Transit
The Apple Pay Octopus Inbound Gouge
Octopus Cards Limited (OCL) released an iOS Octopus app for tourists last week that perfectly illustrates what’s at stake when Apple plays loose with some developers for the sake of […]
Suica - Transit
JRE POINT and Ekinet finally connect in 2021
In case you ever wondered what the QR Code reader on JR East station tickets machines is for: picking up online preordered JR East commuter passes, and nothing else. This […]
Apple - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - CASHLESS - FeliCa - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC tags - PASMO - Suica - Suica App - Touchless - Transit
Road to Super Suica: cloud integration
Mobile Suica Shinkansen eTicket service via Suica App ended in March 2020, replaced by the cloud based JR East Eki-net Shinkansen eTicket service. Since Mobile Suica Shinkansen is gone and […]