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Apple patent mobile ticketing system
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 19 April 2010
At the end of a week in which both We7 and MySpace announced they were adding gig ticket sell-through to their streaming music services, there was much chatter that Apple are also planning on launching a ticketing platform, after the IT giant patented a software system called Concert Ticket+.
According to reports, the Apple system, should it come to fruition, would sell tickets via the iTunes Store which would then be downloaded to a user’s iPhone. Other multi-media content or coupons for refreshments or merchandise could also be attached to the ticket.
Unlike We7, MySpace et al, for whom gig ticket sell-through is an obvious extra revenue stream, it seems Apple also have ambitions in the still emerging mobile ticketing market.
