There's nothing interesting going on here, and I don't mean that as a criticism. There's a clear schema, no particularly clever UX needed, you can build almost all of this out of standard UI components, and the problem is well defined.

The only challenge is the actual time input for coding, and that's mostly gone today.

https://walletwallet.alen.ro/

This would enable them to finally have Wallet show ONLY that rectangle at a suddenly blinding brightness level (on HDR displays) for the scanner, rather than cranking up the entire screen.

Better late than never!

How about instead agreeing a standard joint with Google, so people only need to make passes once, not separately for each smartphone platform?

Would be good if the tech companies could actually make things easier, not try to lock businesses into particular platforms, and make everyone do extra special work just for their platform.

Pass Designer beta requires macOS 27 or later

Interesting if this is due to concrete reason or not.

A friend and I created a fun little project to enable us (and anyone) to create cards from the web https://kitty.cards

Wallet Passes are incredibly useful and people like them. I tried to create a Pass with the woefully inadequate Apple documentation years ago and ended up pivoting because it was such a pain in the ass.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKPASS

Yet what's new from Apple? A little color flyer design app. That would have rocked in the 1980s!

I am not saying there is zero value here. Just saying it is strange to see Apple focused on this type of stuff.

What is next, ASUS making electric bike motors?