Brian X. Chen at the New York Times:
Old-school train conductors are finally ready to give up their hole punchers to try something new: the iPhone.
Amtrak, the government-owned corporation that oversees the nation’s railroad train services, has been training conductors since November to use the Apple handset as an electronic ticket scanner on a few routes, including from Boston to Portland, Me., and San Jose, Calif., to Sacramento.
I’ll miss the confetti. Just a little bit.
next Amtrak will go paperless then iphone will have scan another iphone. conservatives will cry same sex marriage or something.
I rode on an Amtrak Acela train this past week and noticed the iPhone ticket scanner running a custom app.