The UK government has admitted its flagship app to allow EU citizens to apply for residency after Brexit will not work on Apple phones.
One of the flustered officials suggested that iPhone users should borrow an Android phone from a friend or family member to make the application.
The issue arises due to Apple's lockdown of its NFC chip, which is not accessible to third party apps. Thus the iPhone version of the app is unable to read data from the chip in biometric passports.
>buy a phone with a NFC reader >can't use it sometimes i really don't get Apple, what's next only official apps can access the camera?
Connor Sanders
Why doesn't Apple just open up NFC on their devices? What reason do they even have for locking it down?
Christopher Murphy
Courage.
Austin King
abuse especially by governments
Owen Hernandez
>after Brexit So never?
Lucas Reed
You can eavesdrop on nfc connections from about 10m away
Henry Price
>Why doesn't Apple just open up NFC on their devices? Take reason they have locked Bluetooth and removed 3.5mm. To be decks about it.
Bentley Brooks
And yet Apple Pay is still a thing.
Hunter Smith
Apple Pay and Google Pay both use far more than just the nfc standard
Benjamin Powell
But that's pretty much beside the point.
I mean, for starters, Apple Pay works with Suica without any modification to the NFC readers, so it's clearly inter-operable with existing solutions and not just running its own show.
Michael Morris
That bit of the transaction is generic nfc, sure. Same as a contactless credit card. But it's the stuff that goes on in software and then on Apple/Google's end to handle the randomized transaction number that makes it secure.
Dylan Anderson
So if generic NFC is possible, why isn't it allowed? Is it just to kill competition?
Owen Ramirez
>locked Bluetooth how so
Blake Jackson
You can't do simple things like generic file transfer.
Wyatt Adams
Bluetooth data sharing is available to developers.
Daniel Brooks
Good, the UK is filtering out all the brainlets.
Christopher King
O B S E S S E D
John Rodriguez
AirDrop exists between iOS devices, and is actually built for strong security unlike the standard Bluetooth profile.
>The app, which was released for iPhones in 2013, uses “Contacts Only” as the default setting and doesn’t work with Androids or Windows phones. The victim must also be within Bluetooth range, which is approximately 328 feet.
>People often forget to switch the setting off from “Everyone,” or don’t realize they have turned it on.
>Carlson had her AirDrop switched to “Everyone” because she used it to send photos at work.
>“It never even crossed my mind that someone may use it to send stuff like that,” she admitted.
Clearly Apple is to blame.
Adrian Barnes
Spotted the phoneposter.
Henry Cooper
Die Apfelcuchen hast zu poopin XD
Eli Morris
They were supposed to open it to third-party apps, but I don't know if it actually happened.
Lincoln Ward
iTODDLERS BTFO
Aiden Rivera
And standard bluetooth file transfer always asks you to accept the transfer, AND you must have previously paired the devices. Standard bluetooth: 1 Airdrop: You're using it wrong.
Wyatt Lewis
Mactoddlers eternally blown the fuck out.
Lincoln Allen
probably to prevent apple pay competition
Bentley Myers
It's exactly this. On Android some bank apps have their own NFC systems. On iOS it's Apple Pay or nothing.
David Davis
>more niggers can’t get into UK How is this a bad thing?
Landon Wilson
based Apple trying to help make a walled garden following Brexit.
Jason Howard
this is part of their plan to import more niglets and mohammedans
>One of the flustered officials suggested that iPhone users should borrow a real phone from a friend
Lucas Evans
Why do you need an App to apply for residency? Why even a computer?
Brayden Cruz
>you can read Near Field Communication (NFC) tags of types 1 through 5 that contain data in the NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF). I have no idea how much range that covers.
Zachary Wright
Give me one reason I would want residency in the UK lmao
It's by far the biggest shithole in Western Europe
t. posted from my iPhone
Landon Ross
Mac hate thread?
>try to help macfag friend instal old win game >figure out how to use wineskin >ask friend where his C drive is >grabs his crapbook air out of my hands, rapidly starts installing daemontools and other iso mount programs I dont need >for some reason everything crashes >blames me >doesnt let me even look at it further Haha never again
