iOS Passbook in SA

[MagicDude4Eva]

What is the benefit of using it with Discovery? Apologies for the silly question - get how you could buy tickets with SAA/Kulula/Ster Kinekor - but what are you "buying" with Discovery Health? Or am I being thick, and this is in reference to the Disco CC?

I don't think they have passbook for the credit card. The Discovery passbook I have is for the medical aid - so you will just flick your phone at the doctor/pharmacy/hospital (not that anyone of those actually support reading the barcode, but perhaps in a decade or two we will have NFC).

 

[$m@Rt@$$]

imagine the day when you can use passbook with an SA Taxi

I don't think too many taxi goers have iPhones

 

[$m@Rt@$$]

Hello All.

As you all know, Apple touted its new Passbook app at its keynote and launch of the iPhone 5 and iOS 6.

Having watched the videos and stuff it looks pretty cool and convenient - there is just one problem.

How do I take advantage of this in SA? AFAIK there is not a single service that has integrated - or even tried to integrate - with passbook. It's slightly irritating to say the least - here is this incredibly convenient feature for End-users - and we don't have a single contender to offer up their services and actually look the part.

if you know of any services that have done so, let me know. in the next few days I'm going to be e-mailing multiple ticket-based outlets - Nu Metro, SK, CompuTicket - enquiring about their plans to integrate with this service - if any. It will form sort of a research project of sorts. I might also ask Uncle Jan and the rest of the MyBB journalism team to investigate if possible, considering that they have far greater experience in this field.

Again, any information you can give me would be a massive help. I will also report back in the coming days if interest is high enough.

Stay awesome.

When buying flights using the Mango app tickets are imported into Passbook. If you look at the app on the Appstore you'll see that it says there that Passbook is listed under the supported services.

 

[krycor]

Surprised Kulula still hasn't started using it, instead opting to use a gif image which u kinda have to open with safari (chrome won't let u save it right).

Meh.. Dislike the kulula image process

 

[jansdejager]

I'm confused. Do they punch your phone when you enter for the performance?

 

[SauRoNZA]

Recently loaded my Discovery member card into passbook, but that's about all other than iTunes vouchers.

 

[SauRoNZA]

I'm confused. Do they punch your phone when you enter for the performance?

Just scan it. Verify that it's legit.

Ster Kinekor also use it at some cinemas.