How Apple’s Passbook can bring mobile ticketing mainstream

GigaOm writes, If you’ve flown on a major airline in the past few years, you’ve probably seen someone using a mobile boarding pass, or maybe even used one yourself. But mobile ticketing still isn’t universal, especially in the U.S., despite the ubiquity of smart mobile devices. Apple’s Passbook app, which launches on Wednesday with iOS 6, already has some big names on board, some of whom believe that Passbook will give a swift push forward to the mobile ticketing industry. More than half of all U.S. adults own a smartphone. But using them as a replacement for paper tickets and...

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