I seem to recall reading an article or something a long time ago (last year) about the EU requiring all new cell phones beginning in 2015 have NFC capabilities, or something to that effect? I've tried googling and scouring the Internet since then and have come up empty. But I distinctly remember thinking at the time, "I guess iPhones will have NFC after all if they want to sell in Europe." Has anyone heard of anything like this?
Or maybe I misread it and it said phones that happen to have NFC must meet a certain standard starting in 2015?
Or maybe my old-fart brain is imagining all this. (I hope not. I don't want to be blissfully senile just yet)