INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
For quite a few years, Apple has made Apple Pay extremely easy to use, and one of its best ease-of-use tricks is to allow NFC-powered Apple
Pay to launch the instant it detects an NFC signal
The user doesn't have to launch an app, or even to click on anything
The phone can be in airplane mode as well as not riding local Wi-Fi
Mere proximity to the signal does it all, with a quick finger scan or face glance being all that is needed to make the transaction
happen.Now, with iOS 12, Apple wants to share that magic with the industry, via an SDK
Well, not quite, but it's starting along that path.Apple has been surprisingly quiet about this change, not even mentioning it during its
Apple Developer Conference about iOS 12
Apple has also ignored Computerworld's request to discuss this new capability and hasn't been quoted on it anywhere that we can find.
