In February, 2014 I wrote an article about Apple's lack of support of NFC and their use of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based iBeacons . Well, I was totally wrong! Samsung introduced NFC support in the Galaxy S3 in May 2012. Apple held out until September 2014 when the iPhone 6 was released with NFC support. Since then Apple Pay, using NFC functionality on the iPhone to make payments, has gotten huge.