From Friday on it will be possible to use Apple Pay as access to the system in the New York subway.
As TechCrunch writes, lines 4, 5 and 6 are the first to have a reader at the entrance for the NFC chips in the current iPhones and Apple Watches. The test phase will then begin on May 31st.
It will be interesting to see how Apple Pay has proven itself as a payment method in a system that has to cope with hundreds of thousands of visitors per terminal every day. Since the payment process itself takes some time, this can add up very quickly with the mass of passengers.
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For this reason, Apple also supports FeliCa, an NFC technology from Sony that is used in the Japanese transit system, in its products from the iPhone 7 onwards. Since this is extremely busy, every fraction of a second counts. The FeliCa system is therefore designed for extreme speed and regulates the recognition of a valid ticket within 0.1 seconds.
Apple Pay is much slower, but the system can be seen in addition to the Metro Card, which takes a little longer than FeliCa. In any case, it’s nice to see that the iPhone is becoming more and more a multifunctional tool for more and more services.
