Tomáš Podrabsky One of the innovations that Apple brought with iOS11 is the openness of the NFC (Near Field Communication) chip. This chip has been with us since the iPhone 6, but until the release of iOS 11 it was only used by Apple itself and its Apple Pay service. Now even third-party developers got access to it. It didn't take long for the first of them to launch their apps with its support.
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It is specifically about the American Nike. Starting this year, he became the main partner of NBA basketball for the next 8 years and, as part of his merchandising, introduced jerseys with NikeConnect technology. These are actually classic fan jerseys that hide an NFC chip inside. Together with the app of the same name, they open bonus content to the fan. Just hold your phone to the part of the jersey where the NFC is hidden and the app will open exclusive content within a second, such as bonus videos of players and the team whose jersey you own, current events, match clips, player statistics in the current match, how your team is doing today and also priority access to exclusive Nike and NBA products.
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NFC is likely to get a lot of use. Phones running on Android have had this feature for a long time, Apple deployed it with the launch of the iPhone 6 and the Apple Watch. The aforementioned NikeConnect function will be available to iPhone owners only from version 7, but for example the American MLB plans to use NFC-based tickets from 2018 and it will probably be the biggest expansion of this technology. A respectable 23 teams of the most prestigious baseball league in the world are going to use it. Hopefully we will soon see this form of tickets in our country as well. Our example could be the Miami Heat basketball team, which has announced that it will soon end support for traditional paper tickets and fans will only be able to get to its games with an electronic ticket.
So we don't have to wait for Apple pay and we can leave our credit cards at home soon?
hopefully NFC will finally be used by banks for mobile payments… Android has had it for a while