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Re:Remember QR Codes? They’re More Powerful Than You Think by baybal2 on Friday November 01, 2019 @05:08PM (#21423706)
The problem with NFC was Google and Apple

Google intentionally hobbled NFC and stonewalled Panasonic from adding IrDA to Androud to force people into using Android beam. Apple never gave anybody access to raw NFC to prevent competition to Apple Pay.

I personally met people who made TenPay. They pretty much confirm that the sole point of QR code was to sidestep Apple and Google.

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Re:Remember QR Codes? They’re More Powerful Than You Think by yoz-y on Saturday November 02, 2019 @08:03AM (#21427160)
But Walmart, Lydia and others have also tried to sidestep Apple and Google (and Samsung). It never took up, because once you have contactless cards and NFC phones going to QR codes is a massive regression.
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Re:Remember QR Codes? They’re More Powerful Than You Think by rootusrootus on Friday November 01, 2019 @08:04PM (#21424963)
> They pretty much confirm that the sole point of QR code was to sidestep Apple and Google.

The QR code has been around since the mid-90s and had nothing to do with payment. That's a much more recent application.

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