Inbound Apple Pay Suica user experiences are endlessly fascinating and occasionally enlightening. This tweet video captures the usual ‘whoa, that’s fast’ first time reaction. The responses are equally interesting with […]
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Apple Pay Suica Express Card Performance Timelines
Express Cards on iOS/watchOS have a special place on the Apple Pay platform. First of all there are only 3: Suica was the first to appear with the Apple Pay […]
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iOS 12.1 Apple Pay Suica performance issues
Apple engineering closed my January 2018 iOS 11.2.5 Suica error flicker bug report with the release of iOS 12.1 beta 1: “We believe this issue is resolved in the latest […]
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Apple Maps Japan Quick Point: indoor maps
Before starting let me get this out of the way: indoor mapping on digital devices is in the stone age and basically sucks. It doesn’t matter if it’s Google, Apple […]
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Apple Pay Suica Express Mode with power reserve
iPhone XS and later have the A12 Bionic powered “Express Cards with power reserve” aka Express Mode power reserve. This feature can be used with Suica and other transit cards, […]
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Global FeliCa vs Galapagos Syndrome QR Codes
Back in the pre-iPhone era Japanese manufactures were busy churning out internet connected, e-wallet capable handsets with high quality cameras (for that time) that most of the western IT media pooh-poohed: […]