‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners
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I mean I simply refuse to ask QR code phishing is a thing
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Scan QR code. Order on your phone. Pay on your phone. Asks for a tip.
So uh, what exactly am I tipping you here for dawg?
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the problem is also apple's slow adoption (or outright refusal) to open up various web apis to make web apps more prevalent.
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have you tried stop being poor?!
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Maybe I could try buying and scalping an iPhone on eBay
:thinky face:
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Begin by just getting a house already.
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Get out of the stone age.
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Kids these days just don't want to work
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See that's the thing, I work far too hard and after a night shift and then getting onto a "customer support" agent reveals the cracks in our society.
Maybe you could work harder too!
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Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day is probably the most accurate portrayal of me ever written.
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A mobile app requirement is an easy excuse for me to nope the fuck out.
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This person has never seen the power bill for running a high-availability server with several failovers once in their lives.
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It’s also a gigantic information harvesting ploy.
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The whole using your phone for everything from grocery shopping to just doing whatever Like getting deals or whatever?, Can it please go away?
They're collecting our data anyways.
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Man, I’m torn on this one.
We have two grocery stores in our exurban area.
Kroger, as a corporation, contributes to politicians of both US parties in roughly equal measure. Less than ideal (zero contributions), but not too bad I guess. But, they do have an obnoxious customer loyalty card program. Boo!
Publix, on the other hand, doesn’t have a customer loyalty card program at all. Yay! But, the corporation and their leadership contribute HEAVILY to the new Trumpy GOP, Matt Gaetz in particular. So, fuck them.
I’m boycotting Publix. Lesser of two evils I guess.
I really wish we had a locally-owned mom ’n pop grocery. I’d pay a premium for that.
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Social Friendly Browser can usualky get around this
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Everyone I know works pretty hard and is underpaid but the revenue keeps saying nobody wants to work.
Deep inside I know the teevee never lies
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It was the sheer arrogance of that "supervisor" I escalated it to and I hate to think how someone like a pensioner would've dealt with them that day wanting to access their bank account, especially since all the local branches have been closed
RIP Yorkshire Bank
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This affects me a lot day to day. I have a phone, but it runs postmarketOS, not iOS or Android. It really shows me the importance of open standards. I feel that every business should be required to support open standards for each of the services they offer.
For me, buying train tickets used to be ok, but is getting harder now. Some train operators are really pushing you to use their app now, and getting rid of the option to download a PDF. It really frustrates me: it's not like it costs them more to offer PDF download - if anything, it's much cheaper to offer that functionality than to build and maintain an app for iOS and Android.
Back when I had an Android phone, I used Monzo, and it was so easy to send money to friends, set up standing orders etc. I wish they offered a proper web interface. Now, I use Natwest's online banking, and it's a real pain - I use the card reader to authenticate, then the website logs me out seemingly every 2 mins of inactivity. Some features, like pre-notifying that you'll be travelling abroad, are only available on the app. I only see this trend continuing.
The concert tickets example in the article is insane to me. I can't think of a use case that is better suited for PDFs, and that's what we've been doing for the last 10+ years without any issues. It really is user hostile and excludes people on the edges of society who don't fit, for whatever reason, with what the 80-90% do.
