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  • > Pass Designer beta requires macOS 27 or later

    Interesting if this is due to concrete reason or not.

    by rock_artist
  • Even though they call it pass, this can really be used for a ton of things. Neat addition to the ecosystem, I never would have thought of putting it in the hands of normal users.
    by cyanbane
  • So this is a whole extra workflow that makes Apple only wallets?

    How about instead agreeing a standard joint with Google, so people only need to make passes once, not separately for each smartphone platform?

    Would be good if the tech companies could actually make things easier, not try to lock businesses into particular platforms, and make everyone do extra special work just for their platform.

    by frabcus
  • Haha this is bizzarely specific to my back-of-the woods brain. Feels like something that would be super relevant to someone in San Francisco but not as much to me
    by frabert
  • When I worked at Apple a dozen years ago I pushed hard for this to be built. We were using our own slap dash solution, but we wanted something everybody could use.

    Better late than never!

    by msephton
  • The one thing I hope Apple has added to the pass framework is the ability to semantically define a barcode area.

    This would enable them to finally have Wallet show ONLY that rectangle at a suddenly blinding brightness level (on HDR displays) for the scanner, rather than cranking up the entire screen.

    by mortenjorck
  • There are free, web-based wizards to create PKPass-format Apple Wallet passes. This one was posted on HN a few months ago.

    https://walletwallet.alen.ro/

    by pradn
  • This is exactly the sort of software that was hard to prioritise before LLMs, and trivial to build with LLMs.

    There's nothing interesting going on here, and I don't mean that as a criticism. There's a clear schema, no particularly clever UX needed, you can build almost all of this out of standard UI components, and the problem is well defined.

    The only challenge is the actual time input for coding, and that's mostly gone today.

    by danpalmer

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