Watching the new WWDC 2012 developer video “Introducing Passbook, Part 1,” we couldn’t help but notice that about three minutes in, one of the example passes Apple uses to show off Passbook’s functionality is for a ticket on Oceanic Flight 815 from Sydney to Los Angeles.
If that fictional airline sounds familiar, it should: that’s the same airline and flight as the one which kicks off the events in the hit ABC television series, Lost.
Using that ticket in real life would see you stranded on a mysterious, time-shifting tropical island in the middle of nowhere, where you would have to wrestle with rampaging polar bears, sexy ladies, malevolent insect swarms and an enragingly stupid sixth season that basically boils all of the mysteries down to “a wizard did it.”
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Thanks: Alex M!
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
5 responses to “Apple Places Easter Egg For LOST Fans In iOS 6 Passbook Developer Video”
All I have to say about this article is that the 6th season of LOST obviously went way over your head. Somehow in the 2 years since it ended, you still haven’t figured out the finale.
Typical John Dickhead Brownlee post.
nevertheless, nice spoiler
Makes me want to never fly a plane again. If my plane can tear in half as the Passbook claims, I’ll never fly a plane.