Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: I found information about saving tickets in Google Wallet. Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:26:01 +0100 Lines: 61 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net NOG81PKZN3jTmQ/ECG3B9AtnEIF2zegbtOmpUSg1XASS3MrxIb X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:w/6r6fojCnkG6uK60fGK6IddG7Y= sha256:FGte+84oCnj9rtah/rT9iA5hGzLoI3hbFCzBqFKPQEU= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3288 On 2024-03-19 18:25, Newyana2 wrote: > "Carlos E.R." wrote > > | > | We were talking recently about this in thread "Save tickets in an > emmail?". > | > > That was my friend. Several days later she still can't get the > tickets to entirely load in the email and logging into Ticketmaster > hangs. She tried chat. No luck. She finally got hold of a human > at Ticketmaster. They tried to walk her through it. No luck. They > explicitly told her that printing out the tickets (if she ever manages > to load them again) is not an option. She must go to the circus > using her cellphone as ticket. She could save the tickets in > Google Wallet/Pay (it's not clear what the difference is) but that > hurdle has to wait for actually getting the tickets loaded. > > At one point she was able to load the tickets. By that I mean > she clicked the link in their email and got images of seat numbers > and a barcode. But saving to Wallet failed. Now she can't get the > barcode to show up. > > The fact that Ticketmaster requires a phone, undoubtedly for > their own convenience and personal data collection, is outrageous. > The tickets were bought online. It should have been feasible to > download and print them. That works for airline tickets. There is no data collection involved. > > My friend is planning to take her daughter, son-in-law and > granddaughter to the circus. It's still not clear whether it's > actually going to be possible. > > | I seem to understand that Wallet stores them in "the cloud" somewhere. > | > > Makes sense. So you need your cellphone and a Google Wallet > account just to possess your tickets. And even then you don't possess > them. You only have a (hopeful) means of access to what you paid for. Just a google account which she already has, because she has an Android phone. > > I'm just glad that I'm not > itching to see a concert or spsorting event. Yesterday I went to > the theater again... slipped 'em a tenspot and went in to see > Dune 2. I was alone in the theater, which was built about 90 > years ago. Kids today generally don't know this direct human > relationship to their world. But there's hope: > > https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/ > > -- Cheers, Carlos.