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Marcus knew it was a shakedown. OmniTouch didn’t want a lawsuit; they wanted WinSoft to sell itself for pennies. But WinSoft had no money for a prolonged legal fight. The board was wavering.

Every attempt to use Xamarin.Android or .NET for Android’s built-in bindings had failed. The garbage collector would randomly close NFC connections. The main UI thread would freeze during tag discovery. And the documentation? A desert of incomplete XML comments.

Console.WriteLine($"Asset ID: record.Payload.Span[0..8].ToHexString()");

She pressed the “Deploy” button on Visual Studio. The app compiled. It installed. She tapped a shipping pallet tag to the phone.

“Ship it,” he whispered. But the corporate world doesn’t care about elegant code. Two weeks before the planned v1.0 release, WinSoft received a cease-and-desist letter from OmniTouch Systems , a Silicon Valley giant that had just released its own proprietary “NFC Bridge for Cross-Platform.”