Apple today announced plans to introduce Tap to Pay on iPhone. The new capability will empower millions of merchants across the US, from small businesses to large retailers, to use their iPhone to seamlessly and securely accept Apple Pay, contactless credit and debit cards, and other digital wallets through a simple tap to their iPhone — no additional hardware or payment terminal needed. Tap to Pay on iPhone will be available for payment platforms and app developers to integrate into their iOS apps and offer as a payment option to their business customers. Stripe will be the first payment platform to offer Tap to Pay on iPhone to their business customers, including the Shopify Point of Sale app this spring. Additional payment platforms and apps will follow later this year.
And:
Once Tap to Pay on iPhone becomes available, merchants will be able to unlock contactless payment acceptance through a supporting iOS app on an iPhone XS or later device
And:
Tap to Pay on iPhone will be available to participating payment platforms and their app developer partners to leverage in their software developer kits (SDKs) in an upcoming iOS software beta.
Coming later this year to a future release of iOS and a partner-enabled iOS app.
It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple.
This is the seventh year that I’ve presented this survey to a hand-selected group. They were prompted with 12 different Apple-related subjects, and asked to rate them on a scale from 1 to 5 and optionally provide text commentary per category.
Look forward to this every year. Great read, interesting takes. Happy to take part in this.
The official Academy Award nominations came out this morning, and CODA got three nods:
– Best Picture
– Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
(Troy Kotsur, who played the dad)
– Best Adapted Screenplay
And The Tragedy of Macbeth added three more nominations:
– Best Lead Actor (Denzel Washington)
– Best Cinematography (Bruno Delbonnel)
– Best Production Design (production design: Stefan Dechant; set decoration: Nancy Haigh)
This is a big day for CODA, for The Tragedy of Macbeth, for Apple, and the Apple TV+ team.
Remember, Apple TV+ launched just a bit more than 2 years ago. This is an important milestone.
Apple’s upcoming iOS 15.4 software update appears to have quietly added a massive quality of life change for its Shortcuts app: the ability to disable the incredibly annoying notifications for personal automations that users have set up on their devices, as spotted by Fjorden developer Florian Bürger on Twitter.
This is a huge step forward. The Notification is annoying, but it’s the delay that it causes in the sequence that is the real issue. Great to have this eliminated.
Note that this is a feature in the iOS 15.4 beta. No guarantee that this will make it into the actual release version, but why would they remove it?
