“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.”
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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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