JR East announced the end of the Mobile Suica ¥1030 annual membership fee for all Android devices on February 26 2020. Mobile Suica is free for Apple Pay users. JR […]
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Apple Pay Octopus and the iOS 12.1.3 Release Window
UPDATE: Apple Pay Octopus is coming with iOS 13 Note: For simplicity and convenience I have migrated and merged older Octopus related posts here. All new Octopus related developments will […]
Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - EMV - Mobile Payments - NFC-Felica - QR Code Payments - Suica - Transit
Have a Good Cashless: 2019 Contactless Payment Trends in Japan and Beyond
Happy New Year! May 2019 be a great year for everybody. It will certainly be a very interesting one for contactless payments and Apple Pay: now that Apple has officially […]
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The Japanese Transit Platform Business Model
It’s about time. Somebody from outside Japan finally took in the big picture of the Japanese Transit Platform model and wrote a business outline of it in English. Egon Terplan […]
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iOS 12.1.2 Apple Pay Suica Performance Issues
No sooner than Apple issued the iOS 12.1.2 update that JR East pushed out a Suica system notice in their iOS Suica App: When Suica Balance Fails to Update. I […]
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Apple Pay Drove FeliCa Contactless Growth in 2018
The CreditCard no Yomimono site (CCY) has collected and listed all the FeliCa contactless card issued to date numbers released by Japanese companies in 2018 into one convenient table. WAON […]