{"id":24938,"date":"2019-11-15T12:50:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=24938"},"modified":"2019-11-02T22:54:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T02:54:11","slug":"why-isnt-apple-wallet-smart-enough-to-delete-old-boarding-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/15\/why-isnt-apple-wallet-smart-enough-to-delete-old-boarding-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why isn&#8217;t Apple Wallet smart enough to delete old boarding passes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Software is so smart that it will soon be driving us around, recognizing and dodging pedestrians. <em>WIRED <\/em>and similar cheerleaders for technology assure us that our software pals will also diagnose us based on medical imaging and other tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple Wallet is an app from one of the world&#8217;s leading software companies. Every time I open it there is a boarding pass from a flight that occurred a month or two ago. The software is neither smart enough to delete the pass a month after the flight (and after the location subsystem shows that the flight was actually taken) nor pop up a &#8220;would you like to delete these old boarding passes?&#8221; offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If this is the best that Apple can do, how is it that we can have confidence in the hard problems being solved?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software is so smart that it will soon be driving us around, recognizing and dodging pedestrians. 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