This is a good decision because it helps protect the security and integrity of all iPhones. People looking for ulterior motives are way off base here.
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Apple Restricting Use of NFC Antenna in iPhone 6 and 6 Plus to Apple Pay
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The demo showed Apple Pay working with what looked to be a regular terminal that already works for PayWave/PayPass cards. If Apple is using existing infrastructure, I don't know if they'd make anything off it.
The new iPhone finally has an NFC chip built-in, NFC SIMS were a work-around to allow phones lacking NFC to have it (also present as NFC batteries for Android phones). The NFC SIM will let you use NFC services that aren't Apple Pay.
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How is preventing developers use an NFC chip for other purposes affecting security in anyway? Stop trying to look smart.
Yet when they unrestrict it probably next year,it will be wonderful innovation...
Jailbreaking your phone so that people can readily access your credit card info doesn't sound like the best idea to me...
Like Bluetooth was opened?
Nevertheless, the capabilities of NFC on Android, where you can use tags to start a script won't come to iOS anytime soon, even if NFC would be opened.
Plenty of jailbroken iPhone 5S's out there and I don't see anyone's fingerprints leaking online..
Do you even know what NFC is? It has about as much to do with credit cards as your wifi connection has.
Like Bluetooth was opened?
yes. they implemented new bluetooth features for devs to play with in almost every big iOS version.
apple never allows direct access to any hardware. devs have to wait for the proper API. which takes longer, but keeps the whole OS more stable and secure. but obviously never becomes completely open.
of course this also limits the possibilities for devs.
Preventing third parties from using NFC raises security by isolating the application processors from security processor. If the NFC is being used for secure transactions, then the goal is to prevent rogue or broken apps from intercepting its output or interfering with its output (or input for that matter).
Apple's security processor is designed to gate access to secure peripherals, like an NFC system, and allow no direct communication from the arm cores. The SEP accepts messages in a mailbox inbox and then decides whether to act on them based on security rules. So it isolates the NFC from the CPU. This prevents all manner of possible issues. For example if there is a flaw in the tokenization sequence that might be exploited, this prevents a hacked app from gathering the sequence of tokens. It prevents Rogue apps from intercepting the raw nFC communications which can real details of transactions and thus attack your privacy. Etc.
I believe after apple gains confidence that the system is secure and comes up with testable guidelines for third party nfc access they will allow it.
Apple's security processor is designed to gate access to secure peripherals, like an NFC system, and allow no direct communication from the arm cores. The SEP accepts messages in a mailbox inbox and then decides whether to act on them based on security rules. So it isolates the NFC from the CPU. This prevents all manner of possible issues. For example if there is a flaw in the tokenization sequence that might be exploited, this prevents a hacked app from gathering the sequence of tokens. It prevents Rogue apps from intercepting the raw nFC communications which can real details of transactions and thus attack your privacy. Etc.
I believe after apple gains confidence that the system is secure and comes up with testable guidelines for third party nfc access they will allow it.
They certainly have NFC payments here. But, in case you forgot, something doesn't exist until Apple does it.
They certainly have NFC payments here. But, in case you forgot, something doesn't exist until Apple does it.
Almost no one uses them and almost no one accepts them, and half the time the terminals don't work and the clerk has no idea because no one has tried in forever.
And yet you cannot send data via Bluetooth without jailbreaking.
I know there are benefits of this and its ok that Apple handles it this way, but I just wanted to say that I wouldn't get my hopes high to get all the functionality of the NFC chip on iOS.
iAds is a bit subjective. 15% of the market is still better than Zero.
They need to open it up to No minimum Spend... it went from $1m to 100K But should be like 1000 or something to allow Small companies to advertise.
At least developing for it is completely open now.
you wont see anything like this until Apple makes a deal with Banks in that country.
I guess now it will take hackers 5 hours after the release of the iPhone 6 instead of 2 hours to completely hack the protocol.
//kidding.
//kidding.
