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> They started taking screenshots of boarding passes or coupons so they could find them more easily. This is a dumb way to use computers, What? This is a wonde
by peterwwillis 7y ago
> They started taking screenshots of boarding passes or coupons so they could find them more easily. This is a dumb way to use computers,
What? This is a wonderful way to use computers. Screenshots are offline storage of specific, useful information in a universal format whose content can be browsed and recognized at a glance.
People don't want better organization, they want to get their boarding pass out easily. You can do that a million ways, but the one way that makes no sense is "pull up the virtual letter I received at time of purchase and see if it contains an embedded image or an attachment I forgot to download". What would make more sense is to have an extension to something like vCard called "tickets" and allow special ticket-holding apps to keep them. Your email client could download them and pass them to the app automatically, ensuring you always have your tickets offline and organized in a dedicated ticket program.
We don't have to live in a world where one application tries to do everything, and we can use standards to make universal things (like tickets) actually universal.
- deca6cda37d0 7y agoWith Apple Wallet and Google Pay apps it's easy to add tickets/boarding passes/cards etc Companies should make it easy to add it to those apps. For me boarding passes are really easy to add to Apple Wallet for example.
- neighbour 7y agoSecond this. As an Aussie, we have contactless everywhere here so Apple Wallet has been awesome for me so far. I just wish more brands, products and companies supported it.
- kwhitefoot 7y agoWhere I live (Scandinavia) most boarding passes are just QR codes and a screenshot of that does just fine for the few cases where the app used to book the ticket doesn't handle it for you.