Japanese IT journalist Junya Suzuki brings his clear-headed expertise and sources to explain what The Information’s muddled Apple to Expand Secure Wireless Chip Beyond Payments piece was really trying to say. It boils down to a simple graphic: As Suzuki San points out the NFC Forum defines 3 NFC Modes: Card Emulation, […]
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New Apple Pay Transit Focus for WWDC18
A reader made a very sharp observation regarding new NFC functionality rumored for iOS 12, the Apple Pay Transit support that appeared in China with iOS 11.3 really is a new thing and we could see more coming with the iOS 11.4 update due any day now at some point. […]
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WWDC18 Wish List
WWDC18 is almost here with the usual wish lists appearing everywhere. Here is mine. 1) CoreText Reboot: as said before it’s time for Apple to revisit their long convoluted advanced layout architecture story yet again and rewrite it. Make Unicode rendering secure, offload rendering to the GPU, intelligently integrate OpenType […]