“If Apple does indeed include NFC in the next iPhone, many of those negative on Apple will probably claim that Apple is merely following the likes of Samsung,” Ashraf Eassa writes for The Motley Fool. “However, it’s important to realize that if Apple does include NFC, it won’t just design in an NFC chip and include a few toy applications — it’ll build around it the right ecosystem to make the feature not just ‘neat’ (as it is on various Android devices) but indispensable.”
“How many phones or computers had fingerprint readers before Apple introduced Touch ID? Quite a few,” Eassa writes. “How many of those implementations were as slick and as useful as the Touch ID found in the iPhone 5s? That’s what I thought. Apple isn’t about ticking the checkboxes; it’s about making technology easy and fun for the average person to use.”
Eassa writes, “If Apple introduces NFC and a mobile payments system, you can bet your bottom dollar that it’ll be a game changer.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Until the very moment Apple says it does, NFC stands for Not For Commerce.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arline M.” for the heads up.]
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Can anyone name more than two stores that use NFC? Anyone? No I didn’t think so. NFC will matter when Apple implements it period. Just like that actually matters on Not just some stupid gimmick on dungdroid phones
I might be biased living in Silicon Valley, but I see stores and fast food restaurants with them all the time. What I don’t see is people using them. I wonder if you’re not seeing them because they look a lot like regular ATM/Credit card processor?
Exxon, mcdonalds, walgreens, walmart, ATT stores, Tmobile stores.
Shameful. They’ve wasted their money on a technology that should already be in the grave. Here comes the superior future…
McDonald’s, Tim Horton’s, CVS, Walgreen, Rite Aid, BP Gas Stations, Meijer, Meijer Gas Stations, Citgo, Sunoco, Toys R Us, T-mobile, my Drs Office, my Vet’s Office, and numerous small “Mom & Pop” stores throughout SE Michigan. I have used my NFC debit card at all of those locations in the 10+ yrs I’ve had the card. Never once had a problem or issue with it – never once has it been skimmed or stolen.
There’s an entire public transport system comprising bus, underground and surface rail that utilises NFC in the UK, and that’s in London; other cities are starting to adopt it in the UK, and there are others in the US and Canada, possibly other countries.
Millions of journeys are made every day using NFC, so just because your local 7/11 doesn’t use it, don’t for one second think it’s redundant.
Seriously? In Canada, almost EVERY fast food restaurant uses NFC card readers to read Mastercard Paypass and Visa Paywave. Most transit systems are either currently, or planning, on implementing NFC for passes.
NFC is a fairly open standard and Apple preferred to funnel traffic through its own systems.
I’d be somewhat surprised if Apple did implement NFC… but I think it would be a good thing.
What is with the persistent NFC rumors again. Let the dead rest in peace. Did I miss a memo?
Something about Apple and a Chinese carrier wanting NFC on the iPhone.
Maybe some Chinese carrrier. NOT Apple. They wisely won’t touch that mayhem.
Still Apple can do it for the sake of Chinese carriers. Otherwise, everything NFC could possibly do can be done by Bluetooth 4/LE, and even better since the stupid kissing/bumping is not needed.
Apple about to put NFC in iPhones at this late date and there aren’t 52 reliable leaked stories and photos about it?
Not totally impossible, but not very likely.
Yes, apparently you did. We’ve noticed that you haven’t begun to put a a cover sheet on your TPS reports as requested.
We’ll be by your cubicle to talk to you about this.
Hilarious reference!
Didn’t you get the memo?
At least we know what phones WON’T have great new features like this: Android. I almost feel sorry for the Fandroids, but then I realize that if they are dumb enough to make a wrong decision like that, then they are probably dumb enough to live out in the suburbs. I hope you enjoy high gas prices, and 3 hour long commutes. If you settle for the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel, you have no right to complain.
+1 for not bringing up Sony’s exploitation of Michael Jackson
-1 for playing the preferred neighborhood card
You crack me up, nice one hj
and a very special thanks for not saying “folks.”
I live out in the suburbs, and I’d like to think of me as having a good life. Except for the ’tism, but I have managed that well throughout my life. Not everyone is up to city living. The suburbs are cool since they are close to the city, but still gives you breathing room. To each their own.
We have Metro Rail nearby out in the San Fernando Valley that can take you downtown without stress or worry, unless colliding with another commuter train. 5 minutes to station, 20-30 minutes relaxing with your iPad.
We just saved a baby raccoon that literally fell out of a tree next to our property and that sort of thing (nature experience) won’t happen to you downtown, except for cockroaches & rats. Of course there are some mighty cool upscale lofts downtown.
Forgot to mention we live up in the hills.
In many countries, living in the ‘suburbs’ is just as good as living in the city thanks to decent public transportation. Such a thing in the USA is a rarity. Thank the oil and car industries for screwing that pooch.
Example: Taking a train/tube into London was never a big deal for my daily job when I lived there. No way would I have driven a car to work.
Where I live now in the USA? I gotta be in the city. And I am.
I agree 5 mins to the station 20 mins on the train (every 10 to 20 mins all day) and into the centre without all the hassle of living in that rabbit warren. A few minutes the other way and am out into the country. Yet this is one of the biggest cities in the World. Would never swap that unless I could afford a place in the centre by the river and a place further out, otherwise this is the near perfect compromise.
Oh as for NFC if they would introduce it now it would reflect very poorly on Apple it would shout compromise and indecision when we had all been convinced they were aiming for something much better. In China it might be logical but for the West surely not its a technology with a serious shell life thats fast approaching.
I lived near London too on a couple of movie projects and always took the tube downtown. Took a car to places like Shepperton or Bray Studios more out in the country (took a wrong turn on my first day at work and it cost me 45 minutes to turn around). Only once did I try to drive to downtown London – big mistake! 🙂
I had two lovely older ladies among my friends in London. One time they drove my girlfriend and I from the Harrow area into the theatre district to go to a lecture and companion musical theatre program. To hear the two of them arguing over directions in their wonderful NW London accent was delightful. Friends love it when I tell the story, using their voices as illustration.
Background: London is ancient. It was designed piecemeal in the era of carts, horses and buggies. Viable two lane roads only exist on the main thoroughfares. There is rarely any kind of grid pattern you can count upon. If you think driving in NYC is lunatic, or that Boston drivers are bad, HA!
Yeah it is crazy in London but still a most interesting city. I was rather impressed with NYC’s easy to understand street grid in Manhattan actually. Only been there twice though. When we went out to dinner after shooting stuff on Wes Craven’s VAMPIRE IN BROOKLYN we saw Paul Shaffer come into the same restaurant. NYC is another very cool city.
What are you going to do if the shit hits the fan and you are without electricity, food or water? You won’t be allowed to leave the city unless your helicopter’s electronics are still operational, which is highly unlikely. Are you going to build a raft out of used tires and then try to dodge the snipper fire as you begin to paddle away? That sucks.
I choose to live and have moved much closer to the equator now.
Do you live in the real world? How can u make that comment on features when IOS 8 is a major upgrade that is mainly made up of features Android has had for years and iOS 7 was not much different. If it is bottom of the barrel the iPhone must be buried deep below. The iPhone is still catching up on OS and hardware too and then only if the iPhone 6 is bigger with a better screen and design. As we stand right now the iPhone is far behind the better Android phones and its users have nothing to complain about except Apple following (or copying) the leaders.
Sorry was replying to Apollonia Jackson’s comment above
…and I was about to, but then didn’t cos I had nothing to say 🙂
I live out in the suburbs, and I’d like to think of me as having a good life. Except for the ’tism, but I have managed that well throughout my life. Not everyone is up to city living. The suburbs are cool since they are close to the city, but still gives you breathing room. To each their own.
N o. F u k k i n. C r a p..
(In my iPhone)
Apple’s been researching and developing NFC for about 10 years now, if they use it it will come.
Apple will have their own solution and it won’t involve NFC.
I think it will but not just NFC.
It will be a hybrid technology involving bluetooth, wifi and NFC.
That might be the only way NFC might survive I guess.
Android users live in HOPE
They Hope:
– one day the retailers will have NFC that will work with their phone
– they will eventually get the latest OS update
– their fingerprint sensor will finally unlock their phone
– the android apps will be as good as the ones on iOS
– somebody will figure out how to get the malware off their phones
– samsung tech support will stop telling them “it’s an OS problem, go contact Google” and Google will stop telling them it’s a hardware issue.
– they’ll finally understand what their android tech friend meant by “it’ll work fine once you tweak it and download the keyboard and wipe out the shovel-ware, install anti virus and switch off multitasking and … “
NFC? Why? I want the haptic touch – that’s a feature!
NFC is crap technology. Apple doesn’t integrate crap technology.
Here is an actually INTERESTING article about this subject at The Register:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/10/apple_killed_nfc_says_juniper_research_report/
And here is what I commented regarding the article at The Register:
Thank You Apple For Recognizing That NFC Is Crap Technology
Oh and thank YOU Bill Gates for encouraging the USA to adopt NFC. You, more than anyone else, may have convinced my country to stay away from NFC.
Now if only my state of New York had also ignored Bill Gates, I wouldn’t be stuck with this stupid NFC chip embedded NYS Driver’s License/Passport that I have to keep in a Faraday cage 24/7 for fear of some granny ‘BONKING’ into me and stealing my identity.
Here’s something bold: Ashraf Eassa who writes for The Motley Fool pretending NFC has a hope in hell at this point in time. It’s rotting on the vine and it’s gonna stay that way. That’s a great thing!
Blah, blah, blah, CRAP … blah, blah, blah, CRAP … ad infinitum.
All too applicable, isn’t it. I wrote it just for you.
… pet stalking psychopath.
If I lapse into a coma and awaken in 10 years time and check MDN, there will be a story claiming that NFC is coming to the next iPhone and that an Apple branded TV called iTV is in development.
What has to make you really laugh is the description of it as a “bold feature’. I guess it would be bold in the sense of introducing the floppy disc to Apple TV.
NFC is no longer bold or new. MDN really needs to be a bit more restrained in it’s use of hyperbole.
The headline is not MDN’s; it’s from the Motley Fool article. MDN could have added their trademark “or something”, but it wasn’t appropriate since the article’s headline was written in the classic yellow journalism style.
Apple holds a patent for NEAR FIELD MAGNETIC RESONANCE for charing of electronic devices … maybe this is what the chip is for, and the people snooping / “reporting” / rumor mongering, just don’t understand the difference between an NFC payment chip and an NFMR charging chip … http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2013/09/apple-reveals-master-details-of-wireless-charging-system.html