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Apple locks NFC chip to Apple Pay while PayPal fires shot at security

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When Apple unveiled Touch ID, a fingerprint sensor that verifies your identity to unlock your phone and confirm purchases and app installs, developers clamored for Apple to open up the feature to third parties. Now that Apple has baked NFC technology into the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, developers want access. But for now, like Touch ID was tied to specific functions in the 5s, NFC is tied to Apple Pay (http://www.macworld.com/article/2604353/applepay-aims-to-replace-your-wallet-with-an-iphone.html) alone.</p><p>
An Apple spokesperson told Cult of Mac (http://www.cultofmac.com/296093/apple-confirms-iphone-6-nfc-apple-pay/) that the new phones’ NFC chip will only work with Apple’s new payment system, at least for the next year. It’s unclear whether Apple will eventually allow developers to adopt the chip for their own purposes with future iPhone releases, like the company did with Touch ID in iOS 8 (http://www.macworld.com/article/2455474/open-sesame-how-ios-8-will-unlock-touch-ids-power.html), or keep the chip locked to Apple Pay.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2683984/apple-locks-nfc-chip-to-apple-pay-while-paypal-fires-shot-at-security.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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