Apple Pay Octopus has been in service for a week so I asked for some Apple Watch field impressions on Twitter. Overall, users seem pretty impressed: I am using it […]
Garmin Pay Suica aka Google Pay on iOS
Garmin Pay Suica went live May 21, effectively breaking the 4 year Apple Watch/Apple Pay Suica monopoly. As any Apple Watch user in Tokyo will tell you, Apple Pay Suica […]
iPhone SE: more Apple Pay Suica making way for Mobile PASMO
Suica was the big thing that put Apple Pay front and center in Japan. It still does, everybody loves using Apple Pay Suica Express Transit for Face/Touch ID-free transit and […]
Don’t say Apple Pay: what to say at checkout in Japan with Apple Pay
Japan has the longest history of mobile payments on a large scale thanks to the early cooperation of NTT Docomo and Sony to create Mobile FeliCa and the Osaifu Keitai […]
Rethinking Face ID in the Face Mask Touchless Era
When iPhone X came out in November 2017, IT journalist Tsutsumu Ishikawa named Suica the Apple Pay winner. What he really meant to say was that Suica Express Transit was […]
Global NFC iPhone and Why It’s Important
It worked out pretty well after all. Phil Schiller did not say anything in the keynote but global NFC did make it into iPhone 8, Apple Watch Series 3 and […]