From a user's point of view this seems great. No need to wait for congested LTE to download an app in order to pay for a scooter or parking.<p>I'm curious about the security implications of this though. Seems like it would be easy to make a NFC sticker "skimmer" that you sticker over the official sticker.
92% of people in China use WeChat pay as their primary payment method. Why can't/doesn't the US adopt a QR code payment system?<p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/alipay-wechat-pay-china-mobile-payments-street-vendors-musicians-2018-5" rel="nofollow">https://www.businessinsider.com/alipay-wechat-pay-china-mobi...</a>
This is essentially just a fancy QR code.<p>The tag contains the data who the payment is for and how much the payment is. You could do the exact same thing with QR, but with more fussing and aiming and worrying about the amount of light and whether the image is dirty or not.
Google actually demoed the same approach three years ago. [1] Hopefully now that Apple is doing it, Android developers will finally implement it as well.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.greenbot.com/article/3072233/zip-pow-google-shows-off-android-instant-apps-that-load-without-installation.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.greenbot.com/article/3072233/zip-pow-google-show...</a>
I wonder if NFC chip implants people usually put in their hands can be rewritten to work with this. That would be pretty dope to accept payments from people just by asking them to tap your hand :)
Interesting. I remember doing experiments with this on my Nokia C7 (one of their last Symbian 3 phones) back in 2011. The vision of tapping nfc stickers / POS systems hasn’t really materialized since, but hopefully this helps. From my discussions with various store owners, the adoption has been difficult because changing your POS system is really painful. Hopefully this introduces an option where the problem is sidestepped entirely.
I think a more accurate title might be "Apple Pay announces support for NFC tags", as NFC in general has been supported since the iPhone 7, but read-only.
What is written:
> Imagine tapping your phone on a scooter or a parking-meter and paying for it without signing up or downloading an app first.<p>What I read:<p>> Imagine putting your phone down on the bar and being charged $1000 by some anonymous dude that hid a NFC tag there while noone was looking.<p>Basically, the entire planet is now 'fair game' as a skimmer.