The latest iOS 13 beta Apple Pay Suica has a minor UI tweak that removes the Shinkansen/Green Ticket section added in b4 and, hurray, returns 3D/Haptic Touch notification shortcuts. This was expected as Suica notifications shortcuts have disappeared and reappeared in previous beta cycles. The new Core Haptics version doesn’t […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC tags - NFC-Felica
SmartPlate CEO Takes the Softcream Cashless Index Challenge
AquaBit Spirals CEO Tomohiro Hagiwara responded to my post and took up the Softcream Cashless Index (SCI) challenge, promising to deliver a SCI score of “over 5” with his SmartPlate NFC tag payment service that works with Apple Pay and Google Pay: The Apple Pay side of SmartPlate depends on […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC tags
NFC Tag Apple Pay and Japanese Softcream
Summer is here and the increasing number of Apple Pay Suica inbound tweets are fun to read as always. I saw inbound in action recently at a local station NewDays, 2 Chinese women walked up to the checkout and asked in English “Can we pay here with this?” One was […]
Apple - Apple Pay Suica - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC tags - NFC-Felica
While the screen is on: Background Tags and Apple NFC Evolution
NFC background tag support that allows users to scan NFC tags without an app arrived with A12 Bionic iPhone XS/XR and iOS 12, but the feature is only becoming truly useful with the enhanced NFC tag support in iOS 13 Core NFC. The Japanese and UK governments have already announced […]
Apple - Apple Pay Transit - EMV - MIFARE - Mobile Payments - Transit
Apple Pay Express Transit Comes to America with HOP and Ventra
The October 2016 launch of Apple Pay Suica in Japan was an important one with several ‘firsts’: FeliCa (the Ferrari of NFC) was the first non-EMV contactless payment NFC technology on Apple Pay, it was the debut of Apple Pay Express Transit: cards on a digital wallet platform from outside […]