Reece Martin posted an interesting video, So you built the wrong transit system, that examines the American penchant for building cheap light rail systems that don’t make long term sense. Public transit is a waste of money to Americans with money, so cheap is only way to fund and build […]
Mobile Payments
Apple Pay Navigo launch in 2023, open loop coming in 2024
After a long, long dance, Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) confirmed that Smart Navigo, the Paris region transit card for mobile will come to Apple Pay in 2023. As usual, Le Parisien broke the story (paywall), quickly reported on French Apple centric tech blog iGeneration. “This time, for sure, it will be […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet
Unpacking Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhone announcement
Apple issued a press release outlining Tap to Pay on iPhone. Let’s examine it and figure out what’s going on behind the scenes. Jennifer Bailey has an expanded title: vice president of Apple Pay and Apple Wallet. 2 separate services. With iOS 15 Apple is heavily marketing Wallet app as […]
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Why the fuss about an iPhone NFC payment terminal?
I have to admit I’m a little confused about the brouhaha over the latest Mark Gurman rumor: “Apple is planning a new service that will let businesses accept payments directly on their iPhones without any extra hardware.” Okay, so what are we talking here? Oh, Apple is adding new Core […]
Apple Pay Transit - MIFARE - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC-Felica - QR Code Payments - Transit
Hidden Assumptions
Jonathan Seybold said it best in his Computer History Museum interview video, many arguments can be easily demolished by pulling out the hidden assumptions. In our attention span challenged social media era it’s all too easy to believe things at face value. Few people invest time and brain energy to […]