Re: Support for NFC in PC Platforms

On 25/10/16 00:30, Anders Rundgren wrote:
> As far as I can tell, NFC support in Mobile Phones was (and still is) driven by local payments.
>
> There is no such counterpart in PCs and the Web NFC CG does not target payments either.
>
> IMO, we have a potential problem here, since the standard may turn out having rather little to run on :-(
> Or is NFC support a built-in feature in current PC chip-sets so the only thing you need to add is an antenna?

Anders, I see more use of Web NFC in peer-to-peer tapping of two NFC-enabled mobile devices, and in tapping of mobile
devices to passive tags, although there will be use of USB NFC peripherals attached to PCs and embedded computer boards,
especially when payments get supported.

Mark

Received on Monday, 24 October 2016 22:10:18 UTC