If they're taking two cars and meeting someplace new later on, one of them will bring up the directions and tap to instantly open the same directions on the other's phone, ready to navigate.
Perhaps because you didn't have the capability to easily do so.
Once again you're drawing an erroneous conclusion by ignoring facts which don't support your argument. NFC is NOT the only way to easily transfer information between phones, therefore i've had the capability, I just havent found it remotely necessary or useful to transfer directions.
Perhaps its just me, but the scenario you've given doesn't make sense. Your daughter and son in law are meeting somewhere new
later on. I read that to mean they are each going to separate places (hence two cars) then meeting at the ultimate destination later. One of them has plotted the directions from where they will be making that journey. How would those directions be of use to the other one? Even if they are going to the same location, can't they just pass the address and open the NAV/Maps App which will bring up the route from where they are at that point?
There's alternatives for many things, if you're missing a feature. But I thought the conversation was about having the feature.
The alternatives are pertinent because the argument for NFC keeps suggesting we don't find features compelling because we don't have NFC.
If you suggested I never go out to eat because I don't have a credit card, wouldn't it be pertinent that I have cash?
NFC is still compelling to many other people, even if they have to continue to carry their driver's license around.
The point I was making is its only compelling when it REPLACES those things, NOT DUPLICATES them. Theres is little or no benefit to me of having a physical card with which I can tap to pay, plus having the ability to tap to pay with my phone. In fact there is a disadvantage in that I have to setup and maintain another service like google pay. If on the other hand I can leave that card at home, then that becomes a compelling reason to consider setting up another service.
I'm struggling to fathom why duplicating something like an ID/CC digitally is compelling if you still need to carry the original around :/
My frustration as a consumer is tech like NFC is deployed in handsets as its a cheap way to add something to the feature list. But minimal effort is expended in creating and deploying the services that truly allow the consumer to leverage that tech. Although I guess it depends on the region you live in, certain parts of Asia have been heading down this road for some time. I suspect there the services are mature enough to better leverage NFC equipped devices like phones.
