The short answer of course is: yes, QR Codes really suck for transit, which Abacus first reported on when the QR code transit meltdown hit Chengdu last April. Abacus is […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Transit - MIFARE - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC-Felica - QR Code Payments - Transit
Perception and Reality
I like writing but am no writer, so I prescribe to the ‘if you’re not a sharpshooter shoot lots of bullets’ school of wannabes. When the Financial Times, “The painful […]
Mobile Payments - QR Code Payments
7-Eleven Japan Kills 7pay QR
After the rocky start and security meltdown of 7-Eleven’s 7pay QR Code payment service launch on July 1, the service suffered from an endless parade of mishaps and mistakes, such […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - EMV - MIFARE - Mobile Payments - NFC-Felica - QR Code Payments
Financial Times Dissin’ Japan again: The painful path of curing Japan of its cash addiction
The UK media has a thing about Japan. Japan must always be portrayed as ‘pathetic’. Pathetic losers, pathetically isolated, pathetically out of step, arrogant, etc. Does this make UK readers […]
Apple Pay Suica - Mobile Payments - NFC-Felica - QR Code Payments - Suica
QR Codes and Big Data
After the 7pay QR Code launch and security meltdown, Twitter is full of Japanese tweets asking ‘why do we need QR when we already have fast secure FeliCa services like […]
Apple - Mobile Payments - NFC-Felica
Tweets of the Day: QR Code Tipping Point
I think we are witnessing the QR Code tipping point in Japan. After yesterday’s 7pay ‘latest in a series of QR Code payment system security meltdowns’, IT journalist Tsutsumu Ishikawa […]