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I'll skip the rumor mongering that lead to the NFC speculations and get straight to it. I'm glad Apple is not using NFC in the new iPhone. My iPhone already has one of the best data transmission options available, a retina display and a high resolution camera. NFC is solving the wrong problem. Here's the real problem: how do we communicate data a short distance as quick as possible with the least effort? Near-field curmudgeon.
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The OP's username seems to indicate 'Apple Fanboy' and, as such, of course any feature that the iPhone 5 lacks would be considered as extraneous, unnecessary and lacking, and they'd be (publicly) glad that the phone didn't have it. The fact is that NFC does the job of exchanging information over a short distance very well as is being widely adopted as an industry standard. Even £40 PAYG phones have NFC these days. It seems that Apple have dropped a clanger to save the price of a chip and a bit of software development.
Live the Apple mantras: "We're not going to let you do that" and "We'll save that for the iPhone 6 and screw another upgrade out of you".
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