According to a number of newspapers, Apple has revealed to several of the major UK mobile phone operators that it will not include NFC in its iPhone 5.
This is a big blow to mobile payments, as NFC is widely viewed as the most likely platform and Apple was seen as a company that would bring it to the mainstream.
Apple's apparent reason for not including NFC in iPhone 5 is the lack of clear standards. They have therefore decided to postpone their NFC-launch until 2012, which will enable them to develop a set of proprietary standards in the meantime.
Google, along with a whole host of handset manufacturers and carriers, are are still committed to rolling out NFC in 2011, so it will be interesting to see how much headway they will make without Apple's unique ability to launch new technologies to the mainstream.
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