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Kamis, 02 Agustus 2012

Near Term NFC Mobile Payments Expectations Are Too High - TMCnet's Gadgets eNews

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August 02, 2012

Near Term NFC Mobile Payments Expectations Are Too High

By Gary Kim, Contributing Editor

Hardware-agnostic mobile wallets face fewer hurdles than wallets using near field communications, and will have faster adoption, says Denée Carrington, Forrester (News - Alert) Research analyst, a not unreasonable point of view. In a broader sense, it is conceivable that NFC will enable other applications, possibly some with greater value than the actual payments function, some might argue.


In fact, some might even argue that the other forms of value are required if NFC is to enable a widespread form of mobile payments.


“We expect NFC usage to remain niche in 2012 and even 2013,” says Thomas Husson, Forrester Research (News - Alert) analyst. Still, at some point, when most smartphones have NFC, use cases other than contactless payment will arise... Read More



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