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We’ve already have rumors before about NFC (Near Field Communication) in short range wireless technology to help with making wireless payments that could find it’s way into the iPhone 5.
But some new information has managed to find it’s way onto the web today. A new report is claiming that Apple are planning to include technology in the next gen iPhone 5 which will allow Mac users to keep a portable version of their Mac on their iPhone and allow them to wirelessly allow any compatible Mac to run as if it was their own Mac.

If users wave a NFC-equipped iPhone at a NFC Mac (they need to be in close proximity to interact), the Mac will load all their applications, settings and data. It will be as though they are sitting at their own machine at home or work. When the user leaves, and the NFC-equipped iPhone is out of range, the host machine returns to its previous state.
“The Mac authenticates with the iPhone, which contains a lot of the information the computer needs, such as bookmarks, passwords and other data,” said our source, who asked to remain anonymous. “The system would essentially turn any Apple computer into your own – like you’re actually working on your own computer. Same settings, look, bookmarks, preferences. It would all be invisible. Your iPhone would be all you needed to unlock your Mac.”

I’m not sure how great this would be, surely it would take up a good bit of phone memory, and what are you going to want to do on your Mac that you couldn’t do on the iPhone itself? I mean you wont be able to do anything major surely if only small items of information such as passwords, documents and preference files are stored on the iPhone. However if larger chunks of info are stored in the cloud like applications and music than this could work out pretty well.
They would have to be stored on the cloud due to the slow transfer speeds of NFC technology,apparently Apple have been working on it for quite some time now, but we may not see it released in the iPhone 5, or even the iPhone 6, heck we may never see it.
But whoever is first into the cloud market with a proper functioning service will have a massive headstart over everyone else.
What do you think about this sort of technology in the next gen iPhone? Let us know in the comments