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It’s amazing how impressively flawed the thinking around this is. You can use this app to show an image of the QR code (Apple Wallet), but you can’t use that a
by zaroth 7y ago
It’s amazing how impressively flawed the thinking around this is.
You can use this app to show an image of the QR code (Apple Wallet), but you can’t use that app to show an image of the QR code (Photos).
The only reasonable point in the article is that the Photo app doesn’t know it’s a QR code and therefore you could end up with an image that won’t scan. Which is certainly one possible way you could end up not being able to show your ticket (or your battery could die, or your screen could break, or it could be across the network and your service sucks), but it is no excuse for not accepting a ticket that does successfully scan.
The fact that they then went after this person to extort money from them after the fact — when they were a valid ticket holder — is mind blowing.
- heavenlyblue 7y agoTo be fair, I am pretty sure companies that hire people who would be checking those tickets don’t attract the brightest kinds, too. It’s a job that probably doesn’t pay too well, that also must be quite a stressful environment. You must favour the sense of power and not be able to work anywhere else.
- DanBC 7y ago> is mind blowing. Only if you have no familiarity with the shit show of UK train ticketing.