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1. pastel8739 · 1790972590 · focus · HN ↗

   What do people find interesting about this? This doesn’t seem at all significant to me

   1. willmeyers · 1790973452 · focus · HN ↗

      Apple wallet and I've seen videos of kids on social media who make fake passes in Photoshop to get into events. This might help event coordinators deter that from happening.

      1. iAMkenough · 1790974814 · focus · HN ↗

         Kids - just bring an Android phone if you’re going to scam, since events can’t require customers to be iPhone owners, and Apple didn’t design this with universal compatibility in mind.

         1. mahboi · 1790976641 · focus · HN ↗

            "events can’t require customers to be iPhone owners" unfortunately idk about that

            1. valleyer · 1790978131 · focus · HN ↗

               Right -- I'd already have thought places "couldn't" require people to be any kind of smartphone owner to participate in commerce, but I notice that more and more these days.

               1. iAMkenough · 1790978522 · focus · HN ↗

                  But only one specific brand of smartphone? That’s different.

                  1. izacus · 1790978731 · focus · HN ↗

                     Well, those events don't want them poor kids from coming and dragging down the place, right?

                     /s

                     1. mahboi · 1790988177 · focus · HN ↗

                        I remember when Instagram was iPhone-only. Did some digging... there's now a dating app Raya that's iPhone-only LOL
                  2. mahboi · 1790978764 · focus · HN ↗

                     There are already a lot that require "verified" brands. So iPhone or Android only, maybe recent versions only, and not the hackable Androids like Graphene. Wouldn't be surprised if a more niche place unintentionally required an iPhone.
                  3. valleyer · 1790978948 · focus · HN ↗

                     Definitely. I just feel like a boiling frog sometimes.

                     1. wartywhoa23 · 1791019534 · focus · HN ↗

                        Only sometimes, lucky you..
                  4. akerl_ · 1790981471 · focus · HN ↗

                     Are you saying that you think an event wouldn’t do this because they’d be losing android-owning customers? Or that they couldn’t do it for some legal or regulatory reason?

                     1. iAMkenough · 1790987857 · focus · HN ↗

                        The former
               2. [deleted] · 1790981091 · focus · HN ↗

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               3. wartywhoa23 · 1791019330 · focus · HN ↗

                  People have been so busy discussing whether shackles or handcuffs are more convenient or fashionable that they forgot about their prisonership.

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