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Old Apr 29, 2015 | 4:43 pm
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Originally Posted by m0hamed
QF have done considerable promotion of their app development. To not have considered it for its fundamental purpose seems to fail testing 101.

You couldn't more wrong in your conclusion. The product was designed, advertised and launched yet can't perform the fundamental function.
Did Qantas design the Apple Watch or did Apple? Is Qantas responsible for thickness of people's wrists?

if no, then all Qantas has donethat I can see is to write an application that runs on it and not responsible if there are issues using it. The boarding card readers predate the watch - it isn't as if Qantas brought these readers out specifically for the apple watch is it? If it did, then I agree that Qantas messed up

I suppose Qantas could have just not released an application to run on it, but then there would still have been complaints if it hadn't

If the watch is placed under the scanner, the scanner seems to be able to read it from what I read - so seems to be a functioning application

As far as how the apple watch wearers are supposed to use it as asked in one message on twitter --- hmm, take the watch off

Perhaps Qantas would just be better off removing the boarding pass feature from its watch application given that it seems that it isn't an ideal medium

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