About the infrastructure, there are operators that already have transaction systems running in production, that only need to be modified slighty in order to work with NFC.
You can patch your cash register's software to support NFC, and for instance could use the existing credit card infrastructure.
If such a big consortium of big names is behind NFC, how could you say it's dead in its tracks?
The 6131 NFC not only supports Bluetooth, which enables you to write programs and deploy them Over The Air, but also some more interesting technologies for businesses such as the Web Services API (JSR-172) and the Scalable 2D Vector Graphics API.
These allow you to interact with any existing webservice at very low cost, and display images that can be scaled infinitely - meaning your MIDlet will have smoothly scaled images with every possible screen size.
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You can patch your cash register's software to support NFC, and for instance could use the existing credit card infrastructure.
If such a big consortium of big names is behind NFC, how could you say it's dead in its tracks?