I would prefer NFC, however.
Why? I keep hearing people say this, but in every way I can think of, screen reading is better.
I would prefer NFC, however.
I use the Wallgreens all the time because you don't get sale prices without a rewards card. I would love to see it come to Best Buy that would be useful.
Oh and I don't find it complicated at all, seems simple to me. If you can't figure Passbook out you certainly wouldn't understand how to use NFC if we had it.
Totally useless in the UK for the mainstream. I am not a frequent flyer, nor a Starbucks fan so there is nothing else for me to use it for. If and when UK retailers such as Game, Tesco, Sainsburys etc. start adopting then I might find practicality in it. As it stands, I open it every now again just to see if there are any new apps...
The only time I use Passbook is to use Passhack and get rid of the useless stock apps.
And is anyone else annoyed that passbook turns the brightness up to 100% when running?
It probably means you are not a deal hunter. The major deal aggregators are already onboard.
The businesses would rather you pay full price for their products. So they won't seek you out explicitly. You have to go hunt for the discounts.
I just used this app to redeem two target giftcards from shopkick! It saved my virtual gift cards to my passbook and the cashier had no problem scanning them off my iphone! It was so easy! Wish I could pay that way all the time.
When I added my Starbucks card to Passbook, it started eating data like there was no tomorrow, presumably while constantly checking to see if there was a Starbucks nearby. I deleted it, and things went back to normal.
I've found it's easier to use "money" to pay for my Starbucks than apps or passbook. I hand over cash or my card and it pays for the drink. Putting money into something limited to one store or item as always seemed a bit of an annoying gimmick to me.
I'm flying with Virgin Airlines in January and apparently if you check in online up to 24 hours before your flight, you're given the option to add a passbook which is sent to you via email. But it does not use its own app. So that's an extra one in the UK.
Why? I keep hearing people say this, but in every way I can think of, screen reading is better.
How does Passbook work? Does it load up cards like shown in the pictures or do the cards pop up when it detects the location via GPS?
If it detects the location, can you disable that option?
I'm still on iOS 5, I'm just curious. I'd love to lighten the load in my wallet.
What companies exactly have these "deals"?
The only companies that do business near me that I actually would use and have a passbook app are Target and Livenation/ticketmaster. I have the target app but not once found anything to do with passbook in it. And the livenation/ticketmaster thing is venue specific so they don't even take it anywhere.
I hope it gets better because it seems like a good idea but unless there's widespread adoption it's completely useless.
Passbook keeps all the passes together. The apps are just vessels carrying the passes to the Passbook app. You can also get Passbook passes in Email and from a website.
Bluetooth has 79ish radios that run at 1Mhz
NFC has one radio at 13.5ish Mhz
With software any bluetooth device can become a NFC device
I wanted to like/use it, but there weren't enough retailers for me to be interested. The Starbucks card was nice, but anything else I tried to use (like Target) had me download a separate app first.
Apple just need to top it off with NFC
I must be doing something wrong then. I opened passbook, I clicked App Store, selected Starbucks and downloaded the app, it appeared on the screen ascanybother app, even when I did all the log in at my Starbucks account :-(
What FUD. Fandango charges a transaction fee regardless of Passbook. Check your facts. Do you think Fandango is is business for giving away it's service for nothing. ##.
FYI - AMC stubs card number entered into your Fandango account info on their saves you the $2.00 service fee. Per ticket.
Clearly you've really never end used Fandango otherwise you'd know what I'm saying to be true
You are doing it right. You just need to save/export the Starbucks loyalty card to Passbook. From then on, the pass should appear on your lock screen when you turn on your phone near a Starbucks store.