Originally Posted by
5khours
Just to clarify all the misinformation in the posts.
1. Felica is NFC. There are multiple NFC standards. Felica is one of them. Most hardware supports all of the standards.
2. The NFC chips in the iPhones have always been able to talk Felica. There was never a technical issue. It was purely a commercial decision by Apple not to allow it in order to try to gain competitive advantage for their own payment system.
3. Nearly all of the readers in Japan support all the NFC protocols....not just Felica. The issue is which payment systems the retailers will accept. It has nothing to do with hardware.
4. The main NFC payment systems in Japan are not credit. They are debit/prepaid, and have very low transaction costs.
5. The bad guys are Apple. Low cost secure payment systems are easy. Apple has just been trying to block them so they can rip off the consumer.
Are you sure you're not spreading misinformation?
My understanding of how FeliCa has been working on (Japan-only) Android phones for years and years now is that there is a hardware component.
At the very least, Apple in the original link is naming hardware:
iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus & Apple Watch Series 2 to Support FeliCa
not software.