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Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

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Re: Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

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Post by ajaimk »

superkuh wrote: post #63

Everyone is jumping on the bank for not staying up to date with the frequent and massive chanages that Apple makes. But this is only a news story because it is a bank, this scenario happens constantly to a large fraction of all iOS software. The problem here is that modern libs and standards change so fast (similar to JS) that it really is hard for anyone without a megacorp's worth of software dev employees to keep u…

They've had 3 months to test the new iOS software. That's the whole purpose of WWDC in June and new OS coming out in September

Re: Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

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Post by pdpi »

discordance wrote: post #22
thr0wawayf00 wrote: post #10

This is one of the most exclusive banks in the world, counting the British Royal Family among their notable clients, and they can't even be bothered to keep their mobile app up to date. Pretty much sums up what rich people think about technology: make it sexy and powerful but I don't want to hear about ongoing maintenance costs. According to Wikipedia, new clients needed £500k in disposable funds to set up an account…

What unique services does a bank like this offer it’s clients?

First thing that comes to mind is that a bank like this is probably going to have a much better developed wealth management offering than mainstream commercial banks. The sort that helps you diversify into art rather than real estate, sort of thing.

Re: Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

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Post by xen2xen1 »

InCityDreams wrote: post #65
tdubhro1 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the staff you interact with have been to the same handful of British public schools (ie private fee schools) so you never have to talk to someone who is ignorant of precisely your standing in the British class system and they will all speak with comforting RP, follow the cricket, and drop an occasional Latin phrase into the conversation. Banking service is basically as shite as all the rest. [source: I ran a comp…

"RP" explained for oiks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation Think William Reece-Mogg, not Dick van Dyke.

Agreed. Looked him up and sti ll don't know who he ism

Re: Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

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Post by andy_ppp »

thr0wawayf00 wrote: post #10

This is one of the most exclusive banks in the world, counting the British Royal Family among their notable clients, and they can't even be bothered to keep their mobile app up to date. Pretty much sums up what rich people think about technology: make it sexy and powerful but I don't want to hear about ongoing maintenance costs. According to Wikipedia, new clients needed £500k in disposable funds to set up an account…

The whole of British society is structured this way. Constantly blaming poor people when a good proportion of rich people are rent seeking and/or not doing the most basic things to help their customers.

Re: Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

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Post by RC_ITR »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #48
Symbiote wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was 21 years ago. The figure on the website now is £1M.

> figure on the website now is £1M OP’s point still stands. That’s middle of ground for a private bank. Far from “most exclusive.”

In practice, if you’re over 40, the limit is closer to $5-10m USD at anywhere good, but the idea of banks being “exclusive” is sort of out of date.

Anyone will take your cash if there’s enough of it.

Re: Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

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Post by jefftk »

svnpenn wrote: post #78
InCityDreams wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"RP" explained for oiks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation Think William Reece-Mogg, not Dick van Dyke.

> Think William Reece-Mogg FYI not sure about other countries, but Americans don't know who the fuck that is.

Partly because his name is actually Rees-Mogg

Re: Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

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Post by pdpi »

svnpenn wrote: post #78
InCityDreams wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"RP" explained for oiks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation Think William Reece-Mogg, not Dick van Dyke.

> Think William Reece-Mogg FYI not sure about other countries, but Americans don't know who the fuck that is.

Name's misspelt, it's Rees-Mogg. This is his son, same speech pattern they're talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4uCHNaNbmU

Re: Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

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Post by londons_explore »

api wrote: post #51
thr0wawayf00 wrote: post #10

This is one of the most exclusive banks in the world, counting the British Royal Family among their notable clients, and they can't even be bothered to keep their mobile app up to date. Pretty much sums up what rich people think about technology: make it sexy and powerful but I don't want to hear about ongoing maintenance costs. According to Wikipedia, new clients needed £500k in disposable funds to set up an account…

I'm sure the consultants they pay to maintain the app cost more to churn out just one version than the entire budget of most mobile app startup companies for the first three years.

I know the team that made this app. It's low price labor who cobble together Java... It will be just as terrible an experience to use as any other 'old tech' banking app.

Re: Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

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Post by ttul »

andy_ppp wrote: post #94
thr0wawayf00 wrote: post #10

This is one of the most exclusive banks in the world, counting the British Royal Family among their notable clients, and they can't even be bothered to keep their mobile app up to date. Pretty much sums up what rich people think about technology: make it sexy and powerful but I don't want to hear about ongoing maintenance costs. According to Wikipedia, new clients needed £500k in disposable funds to set up an account…

The whole of British society is structured this way. Constantly blaming poor people when a good proportion of rich people are rent seeking and/or not doing the most basic things to help their customers.

Ahh yes, but by being careful stewards of their wealth, they ensure that the British economy is productive and healthy /s

Re: Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

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Post by scarface74 »

amelius wrote: post #59

This is the difference between Microsoft and Apple. Where Microsoft goes through great lengths to keep new versions of OSes compatible with previous ones, Apple just lets users and developers sort it out.

Yes and Microsoft has constantly paid the cost by not being able to move as fast and having security issues because of some long forgotten piece of legacy code. Apple was able to have basically the same core OS run on phones, tablets, watches, set top boxes and monitors (yes the latest Apple display runs a version of iOS on an iPhone 11 era chip with 64GB RAM).

Back as early as 2005 there were more than half a dozen ways to represent a “string” in C on Microsoft platforms depending on which API you were using.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/text/how-to-convert-bet...

Of course this led to an early easily exploitable security issue in Windows where all you had to do was encode a DOS command and put in the url for the browser and you could run any DOS command with admin privileges on a web server running IIS.

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