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NFC Passes and NFC Certificates for iOS 12 and watchOS 5

NFC Passes and NFC Certificates for iOS 12 and watchOS 5

Apple revealed details of NFC improvements coming to iOS 12 and watchOS 5. Contactless Student ID Cards for Wallet were announced at the WWDC18 Keynote on June 4. Apple clearly […]

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Of Course In-App Payments Are Bigger Than Apple Pay! In America That is…

Of Course In-App Payments Are Bigger Than Apple Pay! In America That is…

The eMarketer blog post making rounds on Apple Insider and other sites basically says Starbucks in-app payments are bigger than Apple Pay and that in-app payments will probably grow faster […]

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Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - EMV - Transit

EZ-Link Apple Pay

This means 2 things: Credit cards make lousy transit cards which we already knew EZ-Link has settled on being just a transit card instead of a transit platform UPDATE Reader reports […]

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Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - EMV - NFC-Felica

Another Contactless Payment System Again

A sharp reader pointed out that in my previous post the PiTaPa NFC reader is a Panasonic JT-R550CR which is Global NFC A-B-F ready and capable of handling everything FeliCa and EMV contactless. […]

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Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - EMV - NFC-Felica

Have Another Contactless Payment System

In Nagoya and Osaka you sometimes run into a contactless payment hardware jungle cluttering up the check out counter like the picture above. Let’s see, we have a J-MUPS reader covering basic […]

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Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica

The Apple Pay Marketing Challenge

Marketing Apple Pay in Japan is really easy: just use Apple Pay Suica. In America where Apple Pay is only about credit cards Apple has a marketing challenge pointed out […]

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