{"id":21488,"date":"2014-09-10T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=21488"},"modified":"2014-09-10T10:49:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T15:49:23","slug":"your-iphone-will-pick-up-the-tab-with-applepay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/your-iphone-will-pick-up-the-tab-with-applepay\/","title":{"rendered":"Your iPhone Will Pick Up The Tab With ApplePay"},"content":{"rendered":"
One of the big rumors about yesterday’s Apple event was that the new iPhones would finally embrace NFC. For those unfamiliar, NFC (Near Field Communications) is a wireless chip\/protocol that allows devices to exchange information by touching them together or having them close to each other. The most common application, however, has been mobile payments. NFC is what powers Google’s Wallet app, as well as the Android Beam file-share solution. While Android has had NFC since at least 2010, Apple is only adding it<\/a> now. Why? Because the world may finally be ready.<\/p>\n Until recently, NFC has absolutely been the domain of power users. One perfect example is how Windows Phone devices come with it despite having no mobile payment solution like Wallet. Instead, you can use it to find things you put little NFC tags on. Um, yay? Apple could have added NFC without a larger game plan, but that would be contrary to how the company generally works. Instead, Apple first created PassBook and had users become accustomed to keeping personal information in there. At the same time, people became more and more attached to tying everything to their iTunes account. After Google and assorted other companies got NFC readers out there, Apple was able to leverage the existing user base, connections to assorted companies, and an in-place workflow could come out with a ready-to-rock solution.<\/p>\n