It's also why I'm excited for Apple Pay and ticket scanning on the Watch: To trigger Apple's payment service on the Watch, you have to double-press the side button, then wave your wrist over the NFC device in question.

But it's funny to me that a gesture Apple intended to make paying for things easy - just wave your phone over the terminal! - unintentionally makes other actions more difficult. This is far from an 'end of the world' problem, of course. The ball park isn't the first interaction I've had with accidental NFC triggers, either. I've been at several restaurants whose pagers have NFC chips within them - get them too close to your phone while you sit and wait for your table, and you'll have an Apple Pay screen waiting for you to dismiss. Eventually, the ticket-taker pulled out a hand scanner and was able to process our passes, but for a few moments, I was worried we'd be out of luck without a visit to the ticket office and paper reprints. I tried several times to trick my phone into not pulling up Apple Pay - turning on Do Not Disturb and Airplane Mode, trying to dismiss the screen - but no luck.

Does android have apple pay