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Apple Pass Designer

563 points · 337 comments · soheilpro

  1. pastel8739 · · focus · HN ↗
    What do people find interesting about this? This doesn’t seem at all significant to me
    1. mahboi · · focus · HN ↗
      What's significant about this is I hate it. Every venue or flight that just texts/emails me a picture of a barcode has worked fine. Now they've invented a flakier solution to an already-solved problem, probably to further iPhone lock-in.

      Southwest boarding passes for example, they used to give me a PNG. Now it's the wallet thing that displays... a PNG. Oh look at that, my wife's iPhone is too old to use it, that's Apple's way of saying she should go buy another.

      1. rafram · · focus · HN ↗
        Your wife’s iPhone is too old to support Apple Wallet?
        1. mahboi · · focus · HN ↗
          It has Apple Wallet, but for whatever reason Southwest's thing doesn't work with it, only works on mine. So I have to screenshot it and send it to her. This illustrates how silly it is, cause the screenshot works fine without all these moving parts, and I even do that when traveling solo cause I don't trust the wallet.
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