Re: Support for NFC in PC Platforms

On Oct 25, 2016 00:10, "Mark James" <mrj@rbate.com> wrote:
>
> 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,

Ok

> although there will be use of USB NFC peripherals attached to PCs and
embedded computer boards,
> especially when payments get supported.
>

I don't see the connection to payments here.

Anders

> Mark
>