It wouldn't. It would simply know that you're near your departure airport around the time you're supposed to be and it would show a notification.
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It wouldn't. It would simply know that you're near your departure airport around the time you're supposed to be and it would show a notification.
There is no reason in not placing a small NFC chip in the device; it would allow "Passbook" to use it as it's software driven and has yet to be developed. By omitting NFC hardware, Apple is effectively taking out the variable from an equation that could be completed with app development. Lastly, Apple is a prominent player in mobile device communication and as such has the power in driving new markets, NFC has been around in many other first world nations for years; it works, it's safe and it's convenient.
In essence, Apple is ensuring NFC either won't take off further or will stall it (perhaps pushing it as a feature to sell more future iPhones).
In essence, Apple is ensuring NFC either won't take off further or will stall it (perhaps pushing it as a feature to sell more future iPhones).
Outside of rural US, NFC has lots of traction.
I use it every day in Malaysia. My good friend in San Jose does as well.
What I think would be most clever is to include an NFC chip in the iPhone 5 (or whatever it will be called) but not have it turned on. Apple could start pressing retailers and other places to use NFC and then activate it alongside the release of the iPhone 5s (or whether it will be called). This will basically allow for apple to get an install base established to use as leverage to build partnerships. That is what I would do, however, I'm no Tim Cook. :-D
Apple is so successful because everything works really well. The benefit of not having it activated from the beginning is that you wouldn't ever feel like it is a half-assed feature like you often find in Android and WP. It would allow time for Apple to make it much more useable.
Well think about what passbook does.
It stores passes for use, then tries to present that pass when it's most relevant.
RFID has methods to detect multiple tags near the reader and filter to deal with them responding at the same time. With Passbook as the first responder then it could have a store of all the ID's on the phone then use the same that system to filter to the best pass or app.
Think of the typical payment situation you have a couple of credit cards, a debt card and a gift card that could all be used to pay. With the passbook interface it seems really easy present all of them let the user pick. Better still passbook could let you order similar types to pick the best one for you.
In effect Passbook could be the receptionist personing the NFC phone line.
Still there is one thing that troubles me and I've yet to see an answer to with the digital wallet. What if your wallet/phone runs out of power?
This would really limit uses if it needs to always have power. It seems that for some uses anything more than the Passive RFID is overkill anyway. If there was a NFC chip that could store a bunch of RFIDs to work in Passive mode then It seems to me Passbook still make a good interface for adding and deleting those passes. Especially as can be delivered by email, a website or From an App on the phone.
Well that was my thinking anyway.
Enabled at the start. Millions of us would use it on day one.
Merchants will adopt it when MasterCard, in partnership with Apple, announce a 1/2 percent drop in processing fees for NFC transactions.
This would be worth a pile of money for high volume sales merchants and kick start NFC in the US. Outside the US, NFC is already taking off.
That's point of the fingerprint scanner in the home button.
This is all pie in the sky at the minute, I think the chance of us seeing this on Wednesday are almost 0. I'd like Apple to prove me wrong though.
NFC with PIN support on the phone is more secure than swiping your stolen credit card at a store. I can easily sign a signature that looks like the one of your credit card. Can you enter my verification PIN on my phone to make am NFC purchase?
Of course you can't actually get into my phone in the first place since you cannot break my passcode lock...
that was a Great article! I'm curious about the following statement though:
"I suspect Apple are sitting on the fence regarding NFC until there is wider adoption, I also suspect the Passbook method will be extended to include specific "card" that could use NFC for payment .. though whether via Visa/Mastercard or via iTunes we dont know "
is this possible without a preinstalled nfc chip?
"I suspect Apple are sitting on the fence regarding NFC until there is wider adoption, I also suspect the Passbook method will be extended to include specific "card" that could use NFC for payment .. though whether via Visa/Mastercard or via iTunes we dont know "
is this possible without a preinstalled nfc chip?
Not even 1% percent of the world's business establishments have NFC capable POS stations. Just because Samsung has it in their devices doesn't mean we need it. At this point, NFC is a marketing ploy.
ok so now the banks come out with a passbook scanner thing attached to your bank account, the same way starbucks is attached to a gift card. IMO more secure than the signal being pushed out for nfc since it has to be scanned and not wirelessly sent...
any thoughts??
Seems simple enough for banks to add since most if not all already have apps....
any thoughts??
Seems simple enough for banks to add since most if not all already have apps....