You know that's a great point. Here in Australia you never hear of anyone making payments using NFC. I mean sure people have android phones with the NFC chip but NFC for payments hasn't really taken off.
... but Apple are about to change all that. I believe they will be the driving force to encourage, and enable, people to transact using NFC.
NFC may have been around for a number of years but the world really wasn't ready for it, and now Apple have come in at the right time to see this get off the ground.
I mean so many cafe's and restaurants have adopted iPad's as cash registers. You see them everywhere now. Not just in Australia but overseas too. No doubt they have been prevalent in the USA for some time. But with that level of adoption of Apple products all over the place then you know that retailers are ready or at least in a good position to start accepting NFC payment for goods and services. It's like Apple have been builiding this retail ecosystem and now NFC and Apple Pay are the next stage or final stage of this plan.
In the UK we've been able to use NFC payments on our debit cards (up to £20) for a while now and it's really gaining popularity - I'd love to be able to use it on my phone for
any purchase but sadly I don't think we'll see that before the iPhone 7 or 8 going by Apple's track record of "start in the US and then... well... um...".
We still don't have iTunes radio in the UK.
I hope as money is involved this spurs Apple on to making Apple Pay roll out far faster.
The ads seemed pretty spot on to me. For years, folks around these parts crapped all over the idea of a phablet. It was ridiculed and called every derogatory name under the sun. Then Apple announced the 6 Plus, and folks are climbing over each other to get one. You know, it's okay to admit that Apple is now trying to appeal to a user base that Samsung catered to first. It doesn't diminish either company's products.
Yup, this is true, and you can completely see where all this "iSheep" crap comes from at times like this - "Phablets? Hahaha, you look like an idiot using that to call!"... Roll on 2014, "Ooh the iPhone 6 Plus! I must have it, it's amazing - I've always wanted a big screen phone but Android isn't for me..."
Personally I've ordered a 4.7" iPhone, pretty much what I was after for a long time, the only things I'd like to see for the iPhone 7 are:
1. Better visual design, those hideous antenna breaks look tacky and still haven't been explained. The back of the iPhone 6 looks like a cheap prototype compared to the iPhone 4. Why are we moving backwards with this?
2. A step forward in the general ID, those big bezels mean the iP6 is the same size as most 5" screened phones, Apple need to go back to the drawing board and freshen things up rather than just sticking to the original iPhone design and layout on a screen that's a third bigger.
