this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2024
420 points (98.6% liked)

Technology

59366 readers
3990 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
420
Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
102 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Until you can use things like banking apps on them they will never be mainstream sadly.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Two months ago I had to buy a new phone because my new bank's app refused to install on the android version of my previous (perfectly working) android phone that I had had for 6 years. The phone brand was not providing android updates for it.

And I was required to install the app because the website of the bank needed a code that only the app could provide in order to access my account.

And the app itself required a code that I could only get by SMS.

In normal situation I would have gone to a different bank but this time I can't because I signed my mortgage with this bank...

And everything is a slog with them, I hate this bank. And I will be stuck with them for decades.

It should be illegal for bank to refuse access if don't have the 'correct' phone OS

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

(perfectly working) android phone that I had had for 6 years. The phone brand was not providing android updates for it.

I get it through from the banks perspective. The OS is no longer getting security updates, so this is a fault of the phone manufacter for not having a long term commitment to security and OS updates.

And the app itself required a code that I could only get by SMS.

Yeah this is pretty bad.

And I will be stuck with them for decades.

Why's that? I have my mortage through one bank but literally never use the actual services of the bank, I've never called them or used their app or logged into the site. My current account and savings accounts are with another bank separate to my mortage provider.

Also, won't you be able to change when you come to re-mortgage if another bank offers a better deal?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yea you are right I might be able to change sometime in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I do the same with my mortgage. Statements emailed to me monthly so I never need to log in to get them (annual escrow statement as well). Payments made via my normal bank's Bill Pay feature. No reason to ever log in to my mortgage holder's website/app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You absolutely don't have to stay at the bank you have a mortgage through. My checking/savings, auto loan and mortgage are all at different banks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I'm on Graphene OS and I use six different banking apps with no problem.