NFC isn’t a game in Japan. No, wait…

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I was in a meeting earlier in the week where someone said that even with ApplePay, the US is far behind Japan in mobile payments, so I thought I’d do a quick update on Japan which, as for the US, we label a “special case” in our analysis of the market: we can learn from it, but it doesn’t tell us anything about how other markets might develop. As it happens, the Japanese market has just taken an odd turn.

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OK, OK, so the new iPhone will have NFC

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I love NFC, but I was sceptical that Apple would put it in the iPhone 6 because of one particular problem. Maybe Apple have solved it.

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Apple speculation

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Even if Apple does put NFC in the iPhone 6, I do not see why they will use it to implement the existing industry model for contactless mobile payments.

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TAP into Nigeria

Dgwb blog white borderOne of the largest projects that Consult Hyperion has been working on in the past year is the innovative TAP electronic voucher scheme in Nigeria. This has half a million users already and we thought you’d like some details on this amazing system for human-powered contactless mesh networking.

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Never mind the last mile, what about the last millimetre?

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Even the man who invented QR codes says that they are an interim technology. But some of the payment solutions built using them should translate into an NFC/BLE world pretty well.

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Crime and contactless

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Just because there isn’t any contactless crime does not mean that we should ignore the fears of consumers (or, for that matter, the police). Time for some mass market education on cuddle cards, as I now call them.

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Japan and the US are special cases for mobile payments

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The US shouldn’t look at Japan as a model for mobile payments, and Europe shouldn’t look at the US.

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Contactless innovation in wearables (nothing new!)

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I’m a big believer in wearables (not watches). But then I have been for a while.

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NFC isn’t a business model

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NFC is an interface, it’s not a business model. So when commentators said NFC was finished, they meant the telco-centric NFC business model was dead.

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Contactless and one step closer to cashless

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Contactless is not only quicker and easier than chip and PIN, it’s quicker and easier than notes and coins. It’s taking us one step closer to cashlessness. Hurrah!

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