FBH, me neither, im clearly sending message to banks forcing users to get “the app, pls install the app, only the app, without app you can’t be our client anymore”, okay, then let’s close the account !
it clearly became a app-mafia world, whom i consider that :
years ago, banks were not at all in the idea to be app-accessible
years ago, banks were providing some little device, free for the user, instead of the app, in some countries
smartphone and apps are good UNLESS, as the same for religion : if it’s forbidden or mandatory, that mean evil is in the equation. I consider mandartory apps are evil.
i already closed up account of seven banks, here in FR, due to forced apps by banks. I clearly respond : either it’s full managed on my computer, or IRL (without device if mine), or it just wont be with me
and the winner is… revolut ! even forcing people to use a 100% googled-secured phone for it’s customers.. i just dont understand at all why they still have customers (except grandmas globetrotteuse maybe)
and even the worst, in addition of “mandatory apps”, is that (especially with revolut fanboys) lot of their customers wants, and applause, to the idea of forcing litterally everyone in the society to get one, even more than to get just “a cell phone” : “if you dont have smartphone with apps, you can’t be with us, in our society”, claims lot of people on several forums. And they’re proud of this new religion !
“the app” is becoming more and more the “pool people solution”, as new services (especially plateforms that connect individuals -not only dating websites) are either closing their website, or just not opening new ones, except for services that makes paying fees for web browser support (even the camping most popular online service !)
app = depend of latest iphone releases, or android latest ones ; it’s not just google evil service, it’s also a hardware subscription :
“please update to the latest version of our app to use our service” says app
“please update to the latest version of android to update our app” says playstore
“please update to a newer device” says manufacturer about your not-upgradable device
it’s clearly the customer forced to frequently -mean 5 years old max- pays out for the good eyes, and savings, of the online service.
thats why i jerked out any sort of device supporting apps, of my daily life.
online services AND gafam forces us to radicalise us. Before smartphone, 2000s world with computers, was far away more practical, and just better, than the 2020s apps-only society (a nightmare, evil’s order has been delivered lol)
enjoy.
I’d like to say, in addition :
to services requesting “only app, no apps we can’t manage”, just answer : “okay, no problem, post me the device by mail, at your own fees ; i dont have compatible device, and wont spend a penny just for you”.
they make the world incomfortable - not us.
they forced us to obtain a cell phone number ten years ago - they’re doing exactly the same with the apps, with huge-less flexibility. Just say no, close the account. And dont forget to signal them on signal-conso.