Developers can not make use of the nfc chip in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. That has Apple said in a statement at an Apple site. Thus, developers can, for example, does not have any apps for nfc tags or a speaker to wake with a tap of an iPhone.
Developers use nfc in competing smartphones for nfc tags, with which users functions can call by it to the mix. Also is nfc much in use for the connection of devices at home, such as wireless speakers, cameras, and other equipment.
Apple has decided to put nfc in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus only to use for payment service Apple Pay. It is unknown if it stays that way; the manufacturer may later decide to switch to the nfc-functionality to open up.
The iPhone-maker gives compared to Cult of Mac does not have a statement for the closed hold of the nfc chip in the iPhone. Near field communication is a technology for data at a short distance from device to device to send. The technology is already more than ten years, but only since a few years in many smartphones. Apple Pay comes after the release in the United States in October, also to the Netherlands, as revealed Tweakers last week.
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