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What took so long?
Option 2: they plan to start using it themselves in future products for pairing instead/with BTLE or maybe for some sort of in-store display.
Still, it's better than nothing and it represents a huge opportunity for NFC tag providers (where I work). We've been waiting for this for about 4 years.
At first I was excited, but then I read the docs: > Read only > Only supports NDEF formatted tags > Available only on iPhone 7 and newer Basically, this is even more crippled than what WP 8.0 did five years ago (and back then I thought it was too crippled to be useful)
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?
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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
Unfortunately it's read only so that stuff won't be coming to iOS.
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?
Most modern cameras have, for the last couple years, used NFC to quickly and easily transmit photos from the camera to the phone. From what I understand, on Android this works pretty effectively. On iOS, however, weak NFC implementation means that one must use a kind of janky WiFi transfer system. It works, but it's kind of difficult to use and not very elegant.
If anyone's wondering, the API is significantly more limited than the Android NFC API (which having used it extensively over the last 2 years I can say is very pleasant). Still, it's better than nothing and it represents a huge opportunity for NFC tag providers (where I work). We've been waiting for this for about 4 years.
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?
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?
There's undoubtedly great use cases for NFC on phones (payments, travel passes, hotel room keys etc), but it's also a technology that often seems to attract developers solely because it seems 'cool', not because they have a problem that can be solved better with NFC than without it.
At first I was excited, but then I read the docs: > Read only > Only supports NDEF formatted tags > Available only on iPhone 7 and newer Basically, this is even more crippled than what WP 8.0 did five years ago (and back then I thought it was too crippled to be useful)
I wonder if there is any technical reason for requiring iPhone 7. I thought iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s also had some kind of NFC hardware present to support Apple Pay.