Imagine if he had just come out to introduce a common sense minivan, shipping in 2027 and lower cost than the Sienna and Odyssey. There are nearly half a million minivans sold every year, I wonder if Tesla could quickly take 30% of that market with regular Tesla look (not cyber punk style).

You can see their planned locations on the map here https://waymo.com/

Includes St Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburg, Minneapolis etc.

My kids have Clara's and they love them for graphic novels. They had b/w kobo's before but would never go back (unless they stopped reading graphic novels).

I think it does/will? There's an image of it showing the Pluribus image an S1E1 listing. Unless that is acting as a remote for an Apple TV?

That is an image of listening to the Pluribus podcast about Pluribus. It shows that it supports the Podcast app.

But the general impression from a lot of this is HomeView seems to be trying to position itself as something like WatchOS where it hands off stuff to/from a user's iPhones/iPads. So it should likely support apps, but they may be more like Watch apps/faces/complications and CarPlay apps.

For the main page or for the playground.google link?

playground.google link

They have updated the link now.

>Not available in your region Playground is expanding to more regions soon. In the meantime, you can explore other experiments today.

One of his star players posted this in response.

https://x.com/LeVeonBell/status/2105491655142867280

For those without X, "we were tryna win super bowls and coach T was on minecraft building cities "

I doubt he wrote that himself, it's just engagement bait for the betting ad in the next tweet.

the responses are diabolical

With XCancel gone we'll never know.

Nothing of value is lost.

That is really neat! I've made 3, however they are all grouped together in my Apple Wallet, even though they are completely separate. Any idea why?

I've had the same happen with dedicated 3rd-party pass-creator iOS apps - I'm guessing Apple lumps all passes together from a single 'source'? It's an annoying few extra seconds at each merchant to find and select the right card from the sub-menu, yes. :-/

You can sometimes unstick them as the developer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/64865595

I have a few apps on my phone for which the only purpose is to open and bring up a barcode (ex. Tim Hortons Scan and Pay). I'd love to delete the app and only have an Apple Wallet thing.

Anycode Wallet! I used it years ago to put my family’s library card in Apple Wallet. It supports a bunch of standards, and also you can use a photo (which I ended up using because my library uses some weird non-standard bar code).

Edit: also, it’s free.

Pass4Wallet has been my go-to recently (among the free options)

iOS 27 has brought on the ability to create passes yourself

That's amazing! Thanks for that info. I somehow missed it.

I wish Apple also added the ability to create widgets from them. For frequent cards like the grocery store or gym, it would be convenient to have them on the side screen.

Not for barcodes, which excludes almost all membership cards.

So far as I can tell this still requires an pass/wallet signing certificate from the apple developer program to use, so you can't use it to create ad hoc passes, unless you already have a $100 developer subscription.

If you’re on ios27, you can create ad-hoc passes on the phone from the Wallet app and customize it as needed.

And otherwise Pass4Wallet lets you do that on earlier versions too. And you can add an image or colors, the result doesn’t look bad imho

Isn't it dumb that we have to go through all these fucking hoops to do something so obvious

But if a company already has their own custom app for their bonus card, that means they already have the developer subscription

Yes but they are not going to sign your pass you make

I’m pretty sure the idea was that they would make a pass you can add to wallet instead of installing their app, not that they would sign the random pass you made. I doubt it though because they could have already done that. My local science academy stopped printing cards, they just give you something to add to wallet.

Yeah but most of these places want you installing their app

I mentioned that in my comment…

No, I mean, often they won’t even give you a wallet pass, they want you using their app specifically

I use an app called pass2 u wallet for this, it's clunky but works well. No affiliation.

Look for the SuperCards app. I have that for my pc optimum, metro, Canadian tire cards / barcodes. No more carrying 1000 loyalty cards around.

As of iOS 27 you can do this yourself, or physical barcodes, they just don’t look as nice as what this program can do.

The local library app is painfully slow on login to show my library barcode (it preloads all sorts of stuff it doesn’t need) and somehow never manages to stay logged in for any appreciable amount of time. It’s bad enough that it’s faster for me to open the library website, login, go to the menu item to display the library barcode and use that to check out books. Creating a new pass on my phone for the library took less time than logging into their app did. It’s really great for that.

One gotcha with some of the app stuff is that, especially for scan and pay, the barcode is dynamic and you can’t avoid the app. I know that’s the case for the 7-eleven app and its barcode for loyalty/scan and pay.

Can you just make a screenshot and save it to a dedicated folder?

Starbucks on Google can be added to Google Wallet. But then I went to use it and they told me to close wallet and open the app. Shrug.

I've had patchy success with adding boarding passes to the wallet too. Support seems half baked.

Tim Horton's allows reward card in Apple Wallet, but not Scan And Pay (which gives rewards and pays for order at same time). I wonder if the addition of the payment creates a dynamic QR code controlled by the app, and therefore not allowed in Apple Wallet for some reason.

EDIT - I think this is the case. When I open and close my Scan and Pay QR code it is changing each time whereas my Reward only card (in Apple Wallet) is static. Must be due to security.

Wallet transactions are all effectively presented as offline. I usually pay with Apple Wallet at Maverick (fuel/cstore). When I do so, the rewards account, which is also in Wallet, automagically applies. It stays even if I remove the app. I’ve seen it be broken in various ways over the past several years but at this point it all works right. The app matters in theory to authenticate and generate the Pass, but is otherwise inert. I had it running with no iOS permission enabled it but never used it and eventually dropped it. It had points and deals and such, and that’s what websites are for.

It's probably because if someone were to get your static barcode (some account number?), they'd be able to use it immediately and forever. Whereas the QR code is a payment link that authenticates on the backend. Kind of like a credit card magstrip versus the chip.

It used to be difficult to scan qr codes with black backgrounds and older phone apps will blast their screen LED lights to make it easier for the qr scanner to read it, but in the end, all you're doing is scanning a qr code usually.

I had the black background issue at concerts for years but I haven't had that problem in the last 2 years.

HDR maybe? An image by itself can now tell the screen to go full brightness on selective parts or the whole thing. Actually more than full brightness.

That's funny. I've paid at Starbucks with a screenshot plenty of times, but they probably thought it was the real app.

I was going to say, I scan screenshots of passes/codes all the time, including airplanes and busses. I haven't tried a photo, but I feel like there's a good shot it would work just fine. I wonder if a gallery app could be a poor man's pass app.

In China I was surprised a few years ago when my train ticket did not work like this. Needed data on to do a live update of the QR code, or something live in any case.

The wallet app is honestly foreign to me, I just have QR codes in my camera roll

While you had the app,

or without it installed?

Wouldn’t you still need the app to claim promotions and coupons?

iOS 27 includes this feature built in now

The muse character is cute, muse the name is not.

Yes, but many of those wineries import their grapes from California (or other places). My wife and I participate in this boycott and were drinking a sparkling white from Mission Hill Winery which is one of the biggest BC wineries. We noticed the label said something like "Produced in Canada" and then listed grapes imported from California.

Wines that are produced from 100% BC grapes are labelled "BC VQA" and only 19% of the wines in BC are BC VQA.

This was a temporary measure for a couple vintages/years after a frost decimated nearly all the vines in the BC Okanagan. The regulators stepped in to allow relaxed importation rules to help wineries survive. A winery like Mission Hill typically grows and sources all of its grapes within BC.

I think this is temporary and related to crop failures when a lot of BC berries froze. AFAIK they grow their own grapes otherwise. Who knows for how much longer and if the climate will allow growing grapes sustainably at all in those places.