“Your plane landed two hours ago, you rented a car, and drove to your hotel. You’ve been traveling all day and you’re tired,” Steffan Berelowitz writes for CNBC. “You pull into the hotel parking lot and you see a tour bus by the entrance. There are about 50 people mulling around and bags everywhere. You know what’s in store for you: a long wait at the front desk while a crowd people ahead of you check in and wait for their room keys.”
“But wait, you feel a little nudge on your wrist (haptic feedback) and you remember you have an Apple Watch,” Berelowitz writes. “When you glance at your watch, you see a message telling you that you’re already checked in and your room number is 925. You grab your bags and as you walk into the lobby completely bypassing the crowd at the reception desk. You head directly to the elevator which takes you to the 9th floor without pressing a button. The door at your room unlocks automatically when you reach for the handle. As you walk in, another nudge on the watch displays a message asking you whether you want room service and enabling you to select from a list of dinner and drink choices.”
Berelowitz writes, “This may sound far-fetched, but much of this functionality is already available today at 150 Starwood hotels that support SPG’s new app.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As SPG members, we can hardly wait to try this out. Especially the “drinks” part. And, the cool thing is that this is only the beginning!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Rainy Day” for the heads up.]
Niiiiiiiiiice ⌚️😎😀😍👍👌
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Anyone who has tried Disney World’s Magic Bands has gotten a taste of what the world will look like in a few years. Apple Watch will be just like those Magic Bands, except about a thousand times better and more functional, and out in the real world.
I have been told that Disney is already working on a Magic Band app for the Apple Watch. We’ll see if that’s correct or not.
… only missing function is for your Watch to blow a raspberry at all those knuckleheads queueing for their room keys!!
Sorry, but Apple has banned fart apps on the Watch. 🙁 Actually, it’s not good to feed the myth that Apple fanatics are all arrogant and snotty.
And despite that ban, I have hereby reconsidered my threat to sell my AAPL shares and will begrudgingly keep them and my ⌚️
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Hopefully soon you won’t have to mix with those poorer people at all.
Cooooooool! 🙂
Jumping ahead of the line is already good enough, but knowing that you’ll be jumping mostly ahead of the Android crowd makes it even more fun.
The Apple ecosystem vs. Android is our new modern day class structure.
Apple people are the nobility, while Android trash are the peasants.
The fuck are you talking about? This works on Android. You’re ahead of no one.
AFAIK, the app does not work on Android watches, only Android phones.
Not really the point of his post though was it?
wow do you have the power to read minds then? Come the revolution mind ….
poor little android fragmentos boy – fight all you will but it’s like fighting for the horse and buggy – one day your will get it.
I’m not fighting anything except ignorance. SPG keyless entry works on Android. The end.
Nothing works on Android, because Android is crap, and so are the poor ignorant losers who use it.
Oooooohhhh burn! I know when I’ve been outclassed in an argument.
Have an excellent day.
I’ve already had an excellent day, you peasant piece of Android-loving street trash.
Love you too xoxox
You’re right it does.
Be gone, peasant!
this can’t be true because in the Apple event it was room number 941! 😉
Bond, James Bond.
That is just so cool. My watch which was suppose to ship in June will be delivered tomorrow. Apple ship dates are moving right along.
Out of interest from those who have used this SPG app how, or to be precise when would the watch recieve the message automatically, would this be triggered through iBeacon or the phone gps, some other trigger, or purely through the writer’s imagination.