'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised

Post by 1propionyl » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 6:12 PM UTC

Henchman21 wrote: post #266

Boogie_Man wrote: post #128

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At what point does this constitute a hostile action against the user and what degree of retaliation is appropriate? Open question for everyone.

I’m gonna punt on the question of where the line is for hostile actions and use some past legal justification of “I know it when I see it” and I see it clearly here. The second part is the more interesting question to me: Appropriate reactions would seem to include: - finding a new doctor/practice/provider. Super hard in practice as they seem to be geographical monopolies a la the cable networks - providing appropria…

Post by Neonlicht » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 6:14 PM UTC

bloak wrote: post #196

ekianjo wrote: post #38

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the solution is to let the market do its work and move to another bank?

I rather get the impression that the market doesn't always work like economists would like it to work. But do we really need competing banks just for the basic stuff like processing payments? It seems plausible that it's a good idea to have multiple competing banks for the more complex services but perhaps the basic processing of payments could be handled by the government, which already has the monopoly of providing…

Post by Yeul » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 6:18 PM UTC

hilbert42 wrote: post #86

Yeul wrote: post #61

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By choice. Society doesn't penalize anyone if they decide to go off the grid. Look at it this way: should the rest of us with smartphones pay for that bank office?

"Look at it this way: should the rest of us with smartphones pay for that bank office?" To answer that question with any degree of rigor one has to go back to the beginning and study the works of Bentham, Mill and others—and the many issues that surround utility and utilitarian principles. This involves such issues as the greatest good for the greatest number, greed overpowering well established moral norms and the f…

Post by Farbklex » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 6:25 PM UTC

2shortplanks wrote: post #167

One thing this article doesn’t mention is how this all falls apart when you spend time in more than one country. My UK bank (Barclays) won’t let me install their app on my US iPhone (i.e. my phone that uses a US based iCloud account). Tesco won’t let me use their loyalty app. I can’t install an app that’ll let me order Starbucks or McDonalds in the UK (I only have access to the US versions of these apps). I can’t wat…

Post by ThinkingGuy » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 6:27 PM UTC

donatj wrote: post #149

I know people who love having specific apps for everything, but I generally find them a much worse user experience than the browser. Can't select/copy text. Sometimes if it's a terrible developer you can't paste. Can't arbitrarily zoom in. I know Android now lets me copy from the screen but it still flows incorrectly sometimes, like copying from a PDF.