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Amex and Passbook

Works great! Love this one. Doesn't require some bloatware app either to work.
 
sangreal06 said:
My corporate card issued directly by American Express doesn't work either, despite it being listed as an eligible card in the FAQ. Oh well
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It's not listed as eligible.

AMEX FAQ said:
You may enroll any valid American Express Consumer Card or Business Card from American Express OPEN® issued in the U.S. by American Express. American Express Corporate Cards, Prepaid Cards (such as American Express® Gift Cards and Serve℠ Cards) and supplementary Cards are not eligible. Cards issued by licensed third-party financial institutions are not currently eligible for this program. Cards issued outside the U.S. are not eligible for this program. Please see Program Terms & Conditions for more information.
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Apple's not tracking your Amex, dude.

I thought it was a little silly at first, too, but I kinda like the instant notification of transactions as a sort of 1st line of defense against fraudulent charges.
 
bripab007 said:
Apple's not tracking your Amex, dude.
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OK, I trust you.:rolleyes:



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The information they're telling you Apple might access is not your Amex card #, username and password, but your transaction info.

You're submitting your card # and login details to Amex initially to set up their passbook pass, then they're creating a push arrangement on their own servers that feeds that data to Apple's Push Notifications Service (APNS) servers so that Apple can then forward it to your Passbook.

Apple wouldn't ever have, or need, access to your Amex card # and login deets, they only get the transaction info forwarded to them from Amex.

And, as they allegedly do with iMessage, all those push notifications that get routed from 3rd-party > APNS > to your iDevice, should all be encrypted, end-to-end, so it'd be tough to impossible for any rogue Apple employee to even look at those transaction details from Amex.

It would be just as likely for a rogue Amex employee to access your account from their own servers.
 
No matter what I do, I can't seem to get to the passbook part of the Amex website ... or even find the Amexpassbook.com as it says in the ad. What am I missing?? :confused:
 
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