- Dec 3, 2011
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I have it on my phone. First thing I did was turn it off.
(Edit: I posted a CNET article about the suckiness of NFC below)
- I don't want things that I walk by talking to my phone randomly, feeding Skynet information.
- I don't want battery drain from something I'll encounter once every month.
- The only thing NFC is good for yet is paying without a card... no thanks Skynet, I'll just pull out my wallet, which I carry anyway.
- If I want you to have my contact info, I can walk up to you and let our phones make love... or I can send you a vcard from anywhere, in roughly the same amount of time.
- There is already a near-field communication that lets me control exactly what I send and receive, it's called bluetooth... and that one already talks to my headphones and car. (If it could talk to my girlfriend for me when I get home, it'd be even better).
And finally... Apple didn't put it in their device, so no one will adopt it anyway.
I win.
(Edit: I posted a CNET article about the suckiness of NFC below)
- I don't want things that I walk by talking to my phone randomly, feeding Skynet information.
- I don't want battery drain from something I'll encounter once every month.
- The only thing NFC is good for yet is paying without a card... no thanks Skynet, I'll just pull out my wallet, which I carry anyway.
- If I want you to have my contact info, I can walk up to you and let our phones make love... or I can send you a vcard from anywhere, in roughly the same amount of time.
- There is already a near-field communication that lets me control exactly what I send and receive, it's called bluetooth... and that one already talks to my headphones and car. (If it could talk to my girlfriend for me when I get home, it'd be even better).
And finally... Apple didn't put it in their device, so no one will adopt it anyway.
I win.
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