BART and Muni need to start accepting Apple Pay ASAP. You can already do it in the UK and many other countries.
Adoption of technologies like NFC payments in public transport is a good metric to see how competent a local government is.
Adoption of technologies like NFC payments in public transport is a good metric to see how competent a local government is.
Chicago and Miami are likely to follow suit since they already support Fitbit Pay (disclaimer: my employer, but I don't speak for them) - https://www.fitbit.com/us/technology/fitbit-pay/banks
It is still slower than what I'm used to in Japan, where people have been paying for transit with their phone since 2001 or 2002. (Tokyo also went from 50-ish pilot stations to 500 production stations in just a few months. In New York, I think 2023 is the estimated completion date?)
Vancouver just enabled this on their transit system, and they had posters all over warning people to not swipe their whole wallet over the readers like they were used to doing.
I actually assumed Clipper was RFID, but turns out it's NFC after all (the Wikipedia article also notes that it's a common misconception that it uses RFID).