Does not support Apple Pay, it really should. – NYC Ferry by Hornblower Review

Entering a new payment method in this app is a very frustrating extra step to go through before purchasing a ticket to get onto a ferry. It’s worse than you would expect because it doesn’t allow you to paste the card number in the credit card number field. Also, the app’s ticketing system should integrate with Apple Wallet. Another issue is that the app bundle download size should be smaller for such a simple app (especially because the NYC Ferry does not offer the ability to buy tickets through their mobile web site). Cellular data signal strength can be pretty bad at some NYC Ferry stops, meaning that you could have to wait minutes for the app to download for the first time (I did), with no choice but to be patient because some stops don’t have working ticket machines anymore. A straightforward application like this (purpose: to buy a ticket or a pass and use it easily to board a ferry or access a service) should support strong integration with the operating system’s frameworks (Apple Pay and Apple Wallet/Passbook) so that users can have a reliable and familiar experience getting this simple job done with ease. The entire “Ticket Storage” system is needlessly complex from a user’s perspective: no user should have to make a decision about whether the app should store the ticket in the cloud or on the device; no app should expect its users to try to understand how/where it should store its data (and even in the explanatory material, there isn’t a clear explanation of what “Store in the cloud” actually does even when it is describing the trade offs between the two options).
Review by Rajiv Sinclair on NYC Ferry by Hornblower.

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