Saturday, April 9, 2011

#Google #NFC face huge competition

Amplify’d from www.eweek.com



Enterprise Mobility: Google NFC Mobile Payments May Face Apple, Amazon, PayPal as Challengers


Apple is reportedly building NFC for a future iPhone, which could blow open the market for NFC because the company has sold more than 100 million iPhones. This presents a Catch-22 challenge. Until Apple releases an NFC-enabled iPhone, consumer awareness is likely to be low. Apple through its ubiquitous brand tends to call attention to new products. But when Apple does launch an NFC phone and hawks it as a mobile "iWallet," carriers will find it tough to sell Android phones that do the same. Just look at what happened to the Motorola Xoom, launching so close to the iPad 2.

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