Mark, There actually is a website that will allow you to create your own coupons. Check out http://www.passsource.com. This site may be something smaller vendors could use. I created a pass for grins and it was pretty accessible and easy to send to myself. I am sure with time APple will find a way to work around having to download all these apps for various businesses just to allow users access via PassBook. I agree that having to download these apps would not make the experience very pleasant.
On Sep 25, 2012, at 4:47 PM, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > You know, when Apple announced Passbook, I thought, among other things, one > would be able to take whatever store reward cards, currently in one's > possession, such as those issued by CVS Pharmacy, Krogers, The Vitamin Shop, > etc, and either scan them into the App or enter any ID numbers that were > associated with the Rewards card into the App. This is the case with one of > my favorite free Apps called Key Ring. > > Passbook, however, requires that a company have some kind of association > with the App Store. This makes things much more complicated and less > desirable, in my opinion. I don't want to have to download a bunch of store > apps that add all kinds of notifications and overhead to my phone just so I > can save 10 cents. > > I realize that for all the automatic display features to work, some kind of > infrastructure has to be maintained by the vendor and Apple but such an > infrastructure is not necessary if one is content to manually open the > Passbook in order to display the reward cards. > > In my local area, many restaurants offer rewards cards that I use on a > regular basis. These mom and pop shops simply don't have enough time and/or > money to invest in developing an App Store app. > > Allowing the manual entering and editing of a rewards card would have been a > nice feature. > > Fortunately, there are apps such a Key Ring. > > Mark > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
