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

#1

Post by ronwen » Tue, Jun 06, 2017, 8:21 PM UTC

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

#2

Post by Fej » Tue, Jun 06, 2017, 8:59 PM UTC

What took so long?

#3

Post by BillinghamJ » Tue, Jun 06, 2017, 8:59 PM UTC

Is there some kind of example app I can sideload onto my iPhone which will just detect and scan any/all NFC tags and display the data to me?

#4

Post by wnevets » Tue, Jun 06, 2017, 9:11 PM UTC

users in the year 2011 will be so happy

#5

Post by flax » Tue, Jun 06, 2017, 9:13 PM UTC

Wonderful. Now, how many more years before they get write access? The "C" is for "communication".

#6

Post by Analemma_ » Tue, Jun 06, 2017, 9:15 PM UTC

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

#7

Post by sigspec » Tue, Jun 06, 2017, 9:20 PM UTC

We had an instance where we needed to read NFC tags and had to use a third party sled. This would have helped a ton.

#8

Post by martinald » Tue, Jun 06, 2017, 9:22 PM UTC

Is this comparable to NFC support on Android or is it a more limited subset? Can it do equivalent ISO 14443?

#9

Post by dep_b » Tue, Jun 06, 2017, 9:25 PM UTC

Analemma_ wrote: post #6

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

Too much stuff to show yesterday I guess.

#10

Post by dep_b » Tue, Jun 06, 2017, 9:27 PM UTC