Re:Apple Plans iPhone for Japan With Tap-to-Pay for Subways
by MBCook on Thursday August 25, 2016 @09:39PM
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It looks like FeliCa is based on/compatible with NFC (on a physical/radio level).
Is this something Apple could conceivably add into an iOS point release? Or is the chip the controls the NFC in the iPhone probably hardcoded to what it does now and not capable of being adapted (like a software radio wood) to a different protocol?
Even if the phone could do it with a software update, is this one of those things where that wouldn't be allowed because their implementation probably wouldn't match the required security specs (Wikipedia seems to say that there is some special crypto on the cards which they may not want in software).
Is this something Apple could conceivably add into an iOS point release? Or is the chip the controls the NFC in the iPhone probably hardcoded to what it does now and not capable of being adapted (like a software radio wood) to a different protocol?
Even if the phone could do it with a software update, is this one of those things where that wouldn't be allowed because their implementation probably wouldn't match the required security specs (Wikipedia seems to say that there is some special crypto on the cards which they may not want in software).