Garmin Pay Suica went live May 21, effectively breaking the 4 year Apple Watch/Apple Pay Suica monopoly. As any Apple Watch user in Tokyo will tell you, Apple Pay Suica […]
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iPhone SE: more Apple Pay Suica making way for Mobile PASMO
Suica was the big thing that put Apple Pay front and center in Japan. It still does, everybody loves using Apple Pay Suica Express Transit for Face/Touch ID-free transit and […]
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The Contactless Tipping Point, Face ID Apple Pay and iPhone SE Reviews
Back in the different era of 2019, many journalists, both Japanese and gaijin, fretted about the Japanese fondness for hard cash and how things might change with the CASHLESS Rebate […]
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Rethinking Face ID in the Face Mask Touchless Era
When iPhone X came out in November 2017, IT journalist Tsutsumu Ishikawa named Suica the Apple Pay winner. What he really meant to say was that Suica Express Transit was […]
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The Octopus Waiting Game (obsolete)
The release of Apple Pay China T-Union cards this week with the iOS 13.4.1 update was accompanied with a new Apple Pay China transit page that completely rebrands Apple Pay […]
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Apple Pay Suica Commute Plan Refunds
In the COVID era people are working from home as much as possible. With less need for commuter passes, people are either not purchasing them or buying short term one […]