Apple joins the NFC party, providing iOS developers the ability to read NFC tags

Re:Apple joins the NFC party, providing iOS developers the a... by rosser on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @06:03PM (#14501822)

I suspect that the general lack of exciting things involving NFC might have a little bit to do with the fact that ~half the mobile audience couldn't do anything with them. That appears to have changed, so this consequence probably will too.

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Re:Apple joins the NFC party, providing iOS developers the a... by MBCook on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @08:29PM (#14502753)

I always figured that was a big part of why QR codes didn't take off in the US (irony: Apple just added support in iOS 11).

Even so, I'm kind of surprised that NFC hasn't come up with more interesting use cases than easy pairing and as a mode/location switch to mark you're at home/work.

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Re:Apple joins the NFC party, providing iOS developers the a... by dilemma on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @05:36AM (#14504820)

You mean 10% of mobile users couldn't use NFC.

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Re:Apple joins the NFC party, providing iOS developers the a... by rtpg on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @09:38PM (#14503079)

if you could go beyond reading NFC tags (and also allow apps to use the NFC chip fully), then you remove the need for things like physical loyalty cards (like the Starbucks card).

That's a really basic use case, but popular enough in Japan, where even old flip phones had NFC

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