Overly specific use case: I used to have to reach under my desk to find the power switch of the power strip that my monitor and speakers are connected too. I got a Zigbee-enabled power plug, but I thought needing to open the app everytime is also annoying. So I got 2 NFC cards (transport tickets that usually get swallowed by the machine after use, but if you don't use them then, hey, cheap NFC tags!), and programmed Tasker to talk to a HTTP server on my NAS when my phone notices these NFC tags. The backend talks to the Philips Hue hub to switch on/off the power plug and then sends a Wake-on-LAN to turn on my desktop PC.
Many, many people in UK use GOOG pay (wallet now) to pay for goods and services. A few contort their wrists to show off their Apple watch, but phones are more than commonplace.
That makes sense and I didn't appreciate it was NFC based. Canada was pretty quick to bring in tap credit cards so I've just done this and not set it up.
Tap to pay is a big one.
That's very fair. Thanks! I keep a credit card in my phone case for tap so am old school I guess and haven't set this up.