Apple's Passbook app integration w/ Disney

[Rose&Crowner]

No luck with that on an iPhone 4. I'll wait until they get around to it.

 

[Magic Lamp]

Apple's new iOS 6 coming out next week they will have their new app Passbook, which allows you to store gift cards, tickets, boarding passes, etc for participating companies.

Has anyone heard if Disney would be incorporating their gift cards, ticket passes, annual passes, etc into this feature app?

The gift card feature would be really convenient. You could load the card into app and then pull it up from your phone rather than carry the cards around.

Phil

Passbook only works as a collective of passes, coupons and other cards stored in apps related to those companies. So unless Disney offers an app that holds all your passes and gift cards, passbook is useless to you.

 

[WDWFREAK53]

Passbook only works as a collective of passes, coupons and other cards stored in apps related to those companies. So unless Disney offers an app that holds all your passes and gift cards, passbook is useless to you.

I'm an Apple fan and Passbook is a huge failure. It could've been great...but just leaves me scratching my head and wanting more.

1. You can only use it with companies that jump on board with Apple. (Granted, a ton will..and I'm sure Disney will to some extent because of the Apple/Pixar link)
2. You need to sign up with those companies. (Give them your email address, etc.)
3. If you have a simple gift card, you must log into that companies app to have it in Passbook.
4. For an airline ticket...you must download that company's app, and then load it in...now, how many different airlines do you use? That's how many apps.
5. Won't it just eat up storage space having all these apps that you never use except for Passbook?

It should allow you (right out of the box) to just scan or type in the numbers on the cards without needing to rely on the individual companies to get in gear with their technology.

I'd also like to be able to sync up my debit card or credit cards and be able to pay bills through it...or at least purchase items through it.

Great idea, but a failure with implementation. They weren't thinking of the users...they were thinking of the corporations.

 

[lazyboy97o]

@WDWFREAK53 I agree. I expected something like Key Ring, where you scan your loyalty card's barcode or enter the number and its all self contained in the app. Or LevelUp where the coupons and payment for the participating restaurants is all there together. This is just another layer onto something that already existed. I do not see the conveniece in opening Apple's app versus just opening the company's app. Apple is starting to really push towards too much splintering of functionality between apps.

 

[flavious27]

Pretty lame, actually. If Apple had included an NFC chip in the new iPhone then you could swipe your "ticket", "gift card" or "FastPass" right from your account through any turnstile or entry point and eliminate the need for paper or plastic media. As it is, you'll have to stop, have the barcode reader scan whatever image is on your Passbook screen, hold up the line because most Apple consumers are clueless with tech, and what a nightmare it'll be. More problems than solutions. Oh, well. Maybe next year with the iPhone 6?

Kind of feel the same way. Disney using NFC would add to what what we have heard about next gen. Also using nfc with a disney app would be more secure than using rfid with a bracelet.

 

[Rider]

Apps aren't required for making Passbook cards. You can send them directly to an email address and they will download into your Passbook app.

Here, make your own right now: http://www.passsource.com/selectPublicTemplate.php

Most of the Passbook cards you will get in the future will likely come from stand-alone apps (Airlines, etc.). But know that Disney wouldn't need to build an app to support it. You could buy your tickets online and you would be emailed a ticket that would go into your passbook. That is what Cedar Fair is doing right now. They don't have an app but you can buy tickets and put them on your iPhone today.

 

[Rose&Crowner]

Boy that looks like a pain in the .

 

[AEfx]

It should allow you (right out of the box) to just scan or type in the numbers on the cards without needing to rely on the individual companies to get in gear with their technology.

That's why, for now, I find the app useless - because I already do it with my iPhone.

I have pictures on my phone of all my store reward cards/etc. - anything with a barcode - and if you take a good enough picture they can just scan your phone screen. I do it all the time. I didn't need some worthless app to do it with - and it doesn't matter what type of phone you have, as long as it takes and displays high enough resolution pictures. Some places even advertise for people to show their phones for stuff like this (I regularly get emails from chain restaurants that do that).

And, in the end, even the stuff I can't do that with - it's never been that hard to keep track of tickets and such for me. So it's not a huge loss, but it's like the whole "mobile me" thing - not ready for prime time.

 

[hehasbeenchosen]

I think the problem is the brightness of the screen in other apps. In Passbook the screen automatically adjusts to 100% brightness, then reduces to its initial value when you leave the app. The only App in the store that has Passbook functionality is Starbucks as of yet, and I don't have a card so I can't test it yet.

and Walgreens, just updated yesterday