There is no confirmation yet that Apple will adopt NFC for the forthcoming iPhone 6, but sources have told NFC Times they believe there is substance to the rumors that Cupertino is finally ready to adopt the technology this year.
While the sources do not have direct knowledge that Apple is planning to introduce NFC on its next iPhone, they are connected with chip, carrier and, in one case, payments communities in the U.S. and China, and are plugged into the NFC ecosystem. Moreover, they have not been part of what has become an annual rite of groundless speculation in past years that Apple would embrace NFC.
Unlike that past speculation–much of which dwelled on Apple’s purported designs on the payments industry with its hundreds of millions of iTunes accounts on file–the sources told NFC Times this year that if Apple adopts NFC in the iPhone 6, it would take the conventional approach. That means it would support established payments brands, such as Visa, MasterCard and China UnionPay and probably include an embedded secure element and support NFC SIM cards with the chip.
All of this is separate from an analyst report released yesterday by Morgan Stanley, which has garnered much attention the past 24 hours, predicting Apple would adopt NFC using an NFC controller from NXP Semiconductors and likely also an embedded secure element from NXP.
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