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Re:Apple joins the NFC party, providing iOS developers the a... by ben1040 on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @06:26PM (#14501995)
One nice thing is bluetooth pairing.

I bought a pair of Bose QC35 headphones recently. There is an NFC tag embedded in the headphones. I just had to tap my phone to the headphones and hit an "accept" button on my phone, and they were paired.

Similarly a friend has a box plugged into their stereo that's essentially just an A2DP receiver with RCA outputs, and has NFC on it for pairing. I wanted to play some music on his stereo at a party, and all I had to do was tap my phone to the receiver and start up Spotify.

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Re:Apple joins the NFC party, providing iOS developers the a... by MBCook on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @08:33PM (#14502764)
Apple sort of does something like this using BTLE on the 4th gen Apple TV as part of setup. It's kind of nice.

But the idea of having it in headphone and routers and printers and other things? I can get behind that. Easy pairing is a use case that makes a ton of sense.

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Re:Apple joins the NFC party, providing iOS developers the a... by rconti on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @08:35PM (#14502780)
Do you just tap, or do you have to launch an app first? I only ask because the bluetooth pairing process is already pretty painless (I have QC35 and an iPhone).
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Re:Apple joins the NFC party, providing iOS developers the a... by rollingpebbles on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @04:08AM (#14504479)
I have an iPhone 6S, QC35 and a MBP 13 mid-2012. The Mac won't stay paired after booting and sleeping once. Only fixed by rebooting (kext reloading, process killing, bluetooth debug menu don't work). Also, it's annoying that it won't charge and stay powered-on simultaneously. Finally, there's ground loop noise originating from the iPhone if charging the iPhone & QC35 from the same source with using the audio cable together.

ProTip: Apparently, the QC25 remote cable with buttons works on the QC35 too.

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Re:Apple joins the NFC party, providing iOS developers the a... by JohnTHaller on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @12:15AM (#14503721)
You just tap if you have an Android phone with NFC. I purposely got a Bluetooth speaker with NFC to make pairing easy. Whether my girlfriend or I use it or most of our friends of we go to the park or bring it to a BBQ, it's much easier than the usual manual process required on iPhone.
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Re:Apple joins the NFC party, providing iOS developers the a... by pathompong on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @10:27PM (#14503261)
I have Galaxy S7 and Sony SBH20. It's just a tap and they're paired.
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