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Comment by ksec | Hacker News Reader

NFC is going to be Great and could replace a lot of ugly QR Code usage.

But NFC is currently locked on all iOS devices.

Core NFC has been available since iOS 11 (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc). You don't have full access to implement for example contactless EMV payments, but you can read and write data to NFC tags.

OH wow. I stand Corrected. Thank You.

I wish Safari implement something like WebNFC soon. I just dont like QR Code.

Neither Safari nor Mozilla will implement this due to security concerns that Chrome ignores.

None of the new APIs (except web sharing) advertised in the original post will be implemented, as a matter of fact. For the same reasons.

Their positions are open and are helpfully tracked by Chrome. See a rundown here [1]. I wish more people paid more attention to Google's shenanigans.

[1] https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1356125702513418249

>paid more attention to Google's shenanigans

Agree. Thanks for pointing it out.

I dont follow Chrome / Web App development closely ( I only like to work on Web pages ). But I am well aware of Google's shenanigans, dating back when they first state their "Do No Evil" BS.

Typing that makes me feel old. That was nearly 20 years ago.

Except NFC readers are missing in a good portion of Android phones sold to countries where most of people live.

Just through that alone, QR codes will be a default choice over NFC.

NFC feel to be on the way becoming a US version of FeliCa.

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