Originally Posted by
pinniped
Seems cool, but doesn't really solve a problem that the airline app on my phone can't already solve. I'd rather they spent their R&D cycles on something more useful.
Complete Speculation: I'd bet Delta put next to no money into this project. In order to sell new but superfluous technology, some small tech companies like to hitch their name onto an established one.
Delta gets a few "magic" screens for free. If the product works as intended, the company developing it gets to tell potential customers: "Delta uses them in Detroit and loves them."
At least, that's the way it worked back when I worked for a corporate-owned and operated hotel. We were a testing site for technology products. Vendors would give the Corporate Office free stuff that we got to keep, in hopes that we'd say it was a magnificent product that needed to be in every hotel. (Nothing we tested in the 8+ years I worked there ever rose to the level, however.)