When Tim Cook came to Japan in late 2022, it was a charm offensive to stave off government talk of forcing 3rd party app stores. During that time Tim Cook […]
Mobile Transit
Apple Pay Presto: open and closed loop done right
Examine the Where you can ride transit using Apple Pay support page and you’ll notice that some listed entries have an ‘*Express Mode supported’ tag and some don’t. There is […]
Mobile Payments
Tap to Pay on iPhone in Japan FeliCa questions
The low-key May 10 launch of Tap to Pay on iPhone in Japan follows a year of soon to be coming rumors that indicated FeliCa support. But that didn’t happen. […]
Mobile Payments
Starbucks App Clips: real App Clips for the rest of us?
Despite a lot of launch hype back in 2020, App Clips has been a poster child for highly engineered solutions looking for a problem. Lots of industry folks had been […]
Mobile Transit
The Apple Pay Navigo charm offensive
Apple Pay Navigo is finally here after a very long gestation, a French government dictated delay and EU dictated open NFC Host Card Emulation, just in time for the Paris […]
Mobile Transit
Octopus ditches FeliCa for PBOC
Called it: Octopus announced NFC A HCE Octopus for Android, an HCE version of PBOC 2.0 which is an EMV clone, i.e. no licensing fees to pay to EMVCo, Octopus […]