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

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

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Post by givinguflac »

Neat, but I've yet to see a single NFC use case that gets me anywhere near as excited as this author. Amiibo is a cool concept but obviously limited. I've used some writable tags for android settings changes and such years ago, but it just doesn't seem useful to me. Anyone know a killer use case I'm missing here?

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

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Post by dang »

Analemma_ wrote: post #6

This is awesome! But why am I hearing about it from IBM instead of Apple?

It did come up yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14491686. One downside of the annual announcement-day extravaganzas the big tech cos all do is that there is only enough space on HN's front page for the 3 or 4 biggest announcements, at most. Even then a lot of users get irritated by how much Apple/Microsoft/Google/whatever is appearing on conference day.

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

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Post by MikeKusold »

givinguflac wrote: post #13

Neat, but I've yet to see a single NFC use case that gets me anywhere near as excited as this author. Amiibo is a cool concept but obviously limited. I've used some writable tags for android settings changes and such years ago, but it just doesn't seem useful to me. Anyone know a killer use case I'm missing here?

The Yubikey NEO is the only NFC device that ever got me excited. It'd be nice to be able to store all my TOTP tokens on the device instead of the phone. Also, signing/encrypting text with PGP from the yubikey.

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

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Post by threeseed »

givinguflac wrote: post #13

Neat, but I've yet to see a single NFC use case that gets me anywhere near as excited as this author. Amiibo is a cool concept but obviously limited. I've used some writable tags for android settings changes and such years ago, but it just doesn't seem useful to me. Anyone know a killer use case I'm missing here?

The biggest use case is probably for public transport.

That's something where you are tapping on/off multiple times a day.

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

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Post by hdhzy »

MikeKusold wrote: post #15
givinguflac wrote: post #13

Neat, but I've yet to see a single NFC use case that gets me anywhere near as excited as this author. Amiibo is a cool concept but obviously limited. I've used some writable tags for android settings changes and such years ago, but it just doesn't seem useful to me. Anyone know a killer use case I'm missing here?

The Yubikey NEO is the only NFC device that ever got me excited. It'd be nice to be able to store all my TOTP tokens on the device instead of the phone. Also, signing/encrypting text with PGP from the yubikey.

Sadly there is no NFC token that supports 4096 bit RSA keys (I'm not even talking about EC keys). Fidesmo also has support for PGP/U2F over NFC.

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

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Post by rosser »

givinguflac wrote: post #13

Neat, but I've yet to see a single NFC use case that gets me anywhere near as excited as this author. Amiibo is a cool concept but obviously limited. I've used some writable tags for android settings changes and such years ago, but it just doesn't seem useful to me. Anyone know a killer use case I'm missing here?

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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