‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners
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On top of that, even the server setup they talked about wouldn't actually cost that much energy to run, because that's not all that will be running on it. That physical host will likely have dozens or even hundreds of servers running on it, and the small menu serving webserver will account for hardly any of the power draw from the hosts.
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Walmart doesn't let you use contactless pay unless you use their app. several times now I've gone there to grab a few things, not realizing i didn't have my card with me, and had to leave a full cart behind because i will not install their adware.
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sounds like you DO have a use for one...
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I don't live there anymore, but if I did this would be useful information.
I think I forgot to mention that they had cameras pointed at the gates, and I have an extremely identifiable appearance.
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Dude that comment would make my blood boil, like holy shit.
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in the height of covid panic, there was a wheelchair bound, oxygen tank connected, customer whom I still respect for unrelated reasons, who insisted on entering my store without a mask because he was disabled. My dude. If you are so weak that a mask would kill you, you should not be going to stores right now. Do you not know that there's a plague happening!?!?!? There are delivery services, and it doesn't cost that much.
Americans will find any excuse to justify their lazy entitled bullshit.
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I wouldn't mind these apps if there was actually a technical need for them beyond just being a Chromium component, but with added data slurping and pointless notifications.
If I have to use an app to use your product/store, I won't use your product/store, with a side helping of go fuck yourself on top.
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holy balls that thing looks amazing, is it good?
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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.
