9 Reasons Apple Was Right to Omit NFC Payments from the iPhone 5

Apple has — yet again — left payments out when it designed its newest iPhone, despite numerous indications that it explored using Near Field Communication technology to create a mobile wallet. Apple had many good reasons to choose the course it did.

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