Skip check-in; latest hotel room key is your phone

Screw that, give me a key, most likely using a QR code to unlock the doors which is easily photographed and copied. Sure it more than likely will change each new customer but no thanks.

Screw that, give me a key, most likely using a QR code to unlock the doors which is easily photographed and copied.

From the article:

Starwood’s app communicates using a Bluetooth data connection. Each hotel room needs to have a new lock that can communicate with phones.

How is the QR-Code different from the old magnetic strip cards?

Sure, technically advanced, but how impersonal. In the future, nobody will be talking to anyone. Each person will just wander around tapping their phone.