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 brad0 on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @06:52PM (#14502185)

I worked on some prototypes years ago on android that handled a payment from a contactless bank card on your phone.

So in the payments space:

- phone as a payment terminal

- peer to peer payments

I'm sure there's more than that but they're the low hanging fruit

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Re:Apple joins the NFC party, providing iOS developers the a... by MBCook on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @07:08PM (#14502273)

Unfortunately it's read only so that stuff won't be coming to iOS.

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Re:Apple joins the NFC party, providing iOS developers the a... by brad0 on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @07:22PM (#14502356)

I don't believe you need to write to the card in order to do payments. You send byte streams and it generates OTPs.

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Re:Apple joins the NFC party, providing iOS developers the a... by MBCook on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @08:11PM (#14502670)

I was thinking of cases where you may need to update the balance on the card.

You're right, if you only used it as authorization I guess you wouldn't need write access.

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