New POS systems are appearing in 7 Eleven stores with much bigger touch screens and NFC readers that add the EMV NFC logo while shrinking the FeliCa NFC mark down […]
Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - EMV - iPhone - NFC-Felica
Japan is the Contactless Payment Turf War Epicenter
Japan is known as the perfect guinea pig market. Not too big, not too small, tightly integrated, it’s the best test market that exists. Japanese also love to fill out questionnaires, […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - EMV - iOS - iPhone - NFC-Felica
iOS 11 Apple Pay NFC Switching in Action
The Apple Pay NFC switching feature in iOS 11 along with global NFC A-B-F support in every iPhone X and iPhone 8 gives Japanese Apple Pay users the unique ability […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - iOS - iPhone - NFC-Felica
Apple Pay Adds Docomo Prepaid d CARD (U)
Apple Pay Japan added NTT Docomo’s Prepaid d CARD issued by Sumitomo Mitsu Bank to the lineup today along with the obligatory launch campaign: ¥1,000 for signing up plus another ¥500 […]
Mobile Payments - Obsolete
iOS 11 does not activate Apple Pay for older Japanese iPhone (obsolete)
(Note: this post is obsolete information, iPhone 6, 6S, SE are no longer supported by Apple.) When Apple introduced Apple Pay Japan in October 2016, the official release stated: When […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - iOS - iPhone - NFC-Felica - Suica - Transit
Global FeliCa iPhone Delivers New Choices in Payment Turf Wars
A Chinese reader tweeted me asking why global FeliCa was a big deal because the Guangzhou metro already uses Apple Pay. Before I could answer another Chinese reader tweeted that Guangzhou […]
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