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by 0manrho
83 days ago
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> Not if you want to run any of your banking apps or all sorts of things. I must be getting old, cause I see everyone saying this in response as if it's a downside. As someone that's getting real tired of every company/product/service on earth trying to have you install their own app (even before we get to the privacy/data concerns, just on a pure convenience/hassle POV), the idea of "WeLl ThEn YoUr BaNk ApP DoEsN'T WoRk" is frankly a bonus. I can touch to pay with a card , which is faster and more convenient than having to unlock/approve/dick with my phone, which by doing so also allows me to keep NFC off by default (personal preference). Also, I don't need an app for that, already have one, it's called a browser. TL;DR: Sounds like a feature not a bug to me. |
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You are getting old (and so am I), but banks are already starting to build out needed features into these apps that don't have equivalents in their web applications, and I'm deeply worried that this will continue. It also honestly needs a legislative solution, but at least where I live there is no appetite to handling that problem.
It's not paying I care about (and I don't need their app to do that, thankfully!), that's a solved problem as you rightly pointed out. It's everything else that makes me nervous as to where it might be going.
Said another way: I'm saying this as a warning, not as I "wahhhh I don't have the app that I want :'("