As usual, the ever growing number of inbound visitors to Japan are scratching heads at store checkout terminals asking to ‘pay with Apple Pay’ which doesn’t mean anything in the […]
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Apple Pay Express Transit fear mongers alive and well peddling outdated information
Ghost stories are a summertime tradition in Japan, especially ‘ghost pictures’. Everybody knows they’re fake but they still hold a lurid fascinating appeal to the human imagination. When done right, […]
Mobile Payments
10 Years of Apple Pay
Apple posted an ‘update’ on their news page, Apple celebrates 10 years of Apple Pay, where Jennifer Bailey promotes Apple Pay accomplishments, plugs new iOS 18 Apple Pay features (pay […]
Mobile Payments
The Open NFC Lie
The whole EU vs Apple DMA sage boils down to one thing: “unfair” is never defined, never clear-cut. I’m no fan of what John Gruber writes these days, but his […]
Mobile Payments
iOS 17.4 Apple Host Card Emulation
Apple has finally given their answer to EU demands (and now USA demands) for ‘open NFC’: Apple HCE (Host Card Emulation). Basically this means that any payment provider/developer in the […]