Thank you, Scott. A website that allows one to create a passbook coupon is certainly a step in the right direction.
Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Howell Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 4:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: A Comment On The Passbook App 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 <[email protected]> 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/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
