Apple has reportedly bought Mobeewave, a startup that allows phones to become payment terminals with a simple tap, Bloomberg reported this week. The company’s apparently got money on its mind.
iPhones have had NFC chips since the iPhone 6, but previously, Apple only allowed NFC to be used for making purchases with Apple Pay. In iOS 13, Apple is expanding the use of NFC to other apps, and even though iOS won’t officially be available until later this fall, countries…
For over a year, Australia’s largest banks have been engaged in a quiet war with Apple. Their goal is to force the world’s largest technology company to open access to the iPhone’s NFC chip and allow collective bargaining over Apple Pay. Apple is fighting back, of course, and the next…