Matt Drance on why the iPhone doesn’t have NFC and why Apple is all about iterating and solving real-world problems that most people face:<\/p>\n

\n It\u2019s not the technology that matters \u2014 it\u2019s the utility that the technology provides.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is very much in line with what I wrote in my iOS 6 and Every-Day Life<\/a> article:<\/p>\n

\n The mobile phone industry has is no shortage of impressive, whizbang features which sound great and make fun ads but which rarely get used by real people in their day-to-day lives.<\/p>\n

The niceties shipping as part if iOS 6 are great because they\u2019re the sorts of little things that will play big, unsung roles in our everyday lives.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also: Feature checklist dysfunction<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Drance on why the iPhone doesn’t have NFC and why Apple is all about iterating and solving real-world problems that most people face: It\u2019s not the technology that matters \u2014 it\u2019s the utility that the technology provides. This is very much in line with what I wrote in my iOS 6 and Every-Day Life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19542,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574\/revisions\/19542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}