So NOW will MS get NFC support right?

[frett]

Drives me crazy that we have had potentially awesome NFC support but MS has chosen to gimp it so badly in the OS.

Now Apple gets to announce NFC like they invented it. Ugh.

 

[theefman]

Probably less due to gimping and more due to the defacto Microsoft apathy towards WP and pushing it to the right people to open up the functionality. As with all things WP, they sat on this feature and will only improve it when a competitor starts using it as a selling point.

 

[jaygeek]

FIRST, it'd be great if we could actually BUY Verizon Nokia phones with WP8.1!! ...and yes, NFC feels gimped.