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[quote=Miss Priss][COLOR=000000]You must carry a pocketwatch. [/COLOR]I wear my watch a few inches from the hand I hold my iPhone in. [/quote]That's too far for NFC, but that doesn't even matter. One of the things the watch is supposed to be good f…
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solipsismx wrote: » No one said that encryption wasn't needed, but you excluded the magnetic induction that NFC offers when you stated that BLE can do what NFC can do and do it better. How is magnetic induction something NFC "offers"? It's a cons…
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solipsismx wrote: » NFC isn't "a tiny sticker." You may be thinking of simply RFID. Well, there is such a thing as NFC smart tags, which could be smallish stickers. miss priss wrote: » Perhaps NFC will be a way for the iWatch to communicate wi…
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solipsismx wrote: » BLE can create a secure local loop with single reader authentication with a range of just a few inches? The "local loop" is not secure enough. It needs crypto to make it secure, the same sort of crypto that secures Bluetooth. …
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solipsismx wrote: » How exactly is the secure loop created with omni-directional BT from two devices? You do know that NFC uses magnetic induction between two loop antennas located within each other's near field, effectively forming an air-core tr…
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solipsismx wrote: » BLE can create a secure local loop with single reader authentication with a range of just a few inches? Sure. Using the signal strength to reliably enforce close proximity might need some work though. Do we really need proximi…
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dick applebaum wrote: » I've read somewhere that NFC could be used too speed up recognizing and connecting to BLE and WiFi devices. If true, then it could certainly improve the shopping and checkout experiences involving iBeacons and WiFi. No. T…
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macky the macky wrote: » Totally missing from the article is any mention of the RDF, otherwise known as the Jobsian field) chip. The RDF seems to have moved to Wall Street. They are using it in reverse though.
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lloydbm4 wrote: » That is precisely what happens every single time Apple adds something that has been around for years and years, whether it was on Android, or in this case, in use around the world by billions of people for a ton of things to incl…
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dasanman69 wrote: » Then why all the NFC patents? Why spend R&D dollars on a technology that they're not going to use at all? Those patents use "Near Field Communication" as a generic term, not necessarily referring to the thing branded as NF…
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Quote: Especially with the Amazon - Hachette thing happening you have to live in a particularly deep cave not to realize that Amazon is the predatory monopolist in the book business She thinks the publishers should have filed a complaint about…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jmz101 So according to the proposed settlement - Apple would only have to settle if they were ultimately found guilty of price fixing; that seems fair. The Judge wants them to pay even if a later court finds them not…
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Quote: Originally Posted by justbobf Whether Apple is wrong or wrong about this, what gets me is that big companies these days "settle" investigations and lawsuits brought by the government. What ever happened to the government slapping fines o…
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What's "Breaking" here? Didn't we know this already for a month or two?
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I figured iWatch would need to be introduced at WWDC, because it would need apps, and therefore SDKs and stuff, and developers would need to know. So, no iWatch at WWDC would mean no iWatch this year. But. What if iWatch is notification center on …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX How can Apple have moved on from something they've never included? Sort of like they moved on (passing it on the left) from BlueRay. Steve Jobs liked to think of himself of skating to where the puck will…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NelsonX NFC and a large screen are the only two things that can keep me in the iPhone ecosystem. Anyway, NFC is good in a phone, but it will be amazing in a watch. You will only have to swipe you watch and then press…
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I'll believe it when I see it. For several years now, NFC has been on the verge of breakthrough. It's not happening. It's getting old. Even when it was new it was nothing but some fragments of ancient RFID standards throw in together. I know a bit a…
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Apple's patents are neither SEP nor FRAND, Apple is free to ask anything they like, including the blatantly unreasonable. I'm guessing that Apple would much prefer that the competition not use these patents at all. But, so far, they cannot make that…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wakefinance So if Samsung alone is selling 2/3 of Apple's volume in high-end phones, can we all finally agree that high-end Android phones combined outsell the iPhone? The rest of Android would also need to sell 1/3…