‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners
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Those are laptop keys on a phone, i have seen one of these before, i wonder if there are those with older "phone like" keyboards?
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It's true in many ways. If I buy McDonald's without the app I pay more for it. If I fill up my gas tank without an app like upside, I pay more for it. There are services that aren't even available to people without modern phones (I refuse to call them smart phones). Maybe we need legislation to ensure all available discounts, services and benefits are available to customers equally regardless of how they engage services.
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Back in the day, Walmart and Apple fought over contactless pay standards for the US.
Apple's standard was eventually mass adopted, and has Walmart refused to license the tech. So you have to use their app, which uses their own tech stack.
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not the person you replied to but, that's better than I figured it was tbh
I'll probally wait quite a bit longer though myself. It even says on the main screen it's not ready for mainstream consumption.
I'm super excited for the project still, it has massive potential.
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Bad example. Tesla chargers don’t use an app, they assume you have an account set up with a credit card on file. Most people do that through the app but I don’t think you have to. Once it’s set up, it just works with no further interaction
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It's probably too late to do anything about it, but what you described there does directly violate Indiegogo's TOS in regards to perks, so I'm surprised that people weren't able to reach out to the platform itself and issue chargebacks against the Creator in order to get their backers payments back.
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Walmart doesn’t let you use contactless pay unless you use their app.
By "contactless pay" I assume you're talking about paying by using a smartphone app? Obviously I don't care about that because the whole point of my post is that I'm not using a smartphone, so obviously I have no apps of any kind.
But if by "contactless pay" you meant paying with your debit card by tapping it or holding it near the card reader, yes they do have that like everyone else.
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I have a flip phone with a touchscreen so I can type via the onscreen keyboard. When I bought it I wondered how well it would work since the screen is so small, but it works great! So much easier than using the keypad. BTW it also has maps with voice navigation.
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In this thread we ask: Can we expect everyone to use a banking app either? How is that more reasonable, if one of them is democratically controlled and the other is corporate controlled?
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Verizon who uses only CDMA has always had by-far the largest most reliable cellular coverage. Unfortunately, they dictate the firmware released to android phones on their network and they will gladly push an OS update to lockdown the bootloader. Phones like the Pinephone go almost completely unsupported by verizon, and a lot of linux phones are only supported by GSM (not CDMA) technology because thats whats used primarily outside the US. The main competitors to Verizon do support GSM but in 2 decades they have not managed to expand and surpass Verizon's network coverage.
For example I briefly did Doordash in the major Public University town I live in and when I was on the competitors network, my cellular data coverage would drop outside the student dorms in the middle of campus. I'd be doing deliveries and the delivery app would suddenly disconnect. -I switched back to verizon a year later, and though I lost some functionality on my phone (like access to the secret diagnostics menu) I now get coverage everywhere insidetown and most places outside town
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I haven't look at it in a while as I was pissed off that it went down the way it did. Although I personally didn't contact indiegogo many people from the backers within the comments did so and indiegogo refused to do anything about it. So they are complicit in this theft too so by extension I wouldn't advise anyone to use their "service" either.
I did have a look at the campaign because of this comment and nothing has changed, lots of people still complaining about planet computers and indiegogo so it doesnt look like anyone got anywhere in terms of getting their money back.
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So, my comment was removed without even a warning? What rule did I break? The rules clearly state that memes are allowed in comments.
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Pocket computer, phone is just an aspect of it. Surveillance capitalism monitors is what they are in the context you describe
