After the news cycle recently exploded with the announcement that Google would require every single Android app to be from a registered and verified developer, while killing third-party app stores …
Well, I’m likely going to iOS. I need to bank on my phone and those apps only work on iOS and android. If I’m going to be in a walled garden, I’m going to choose the nicer one. Hopefully google gets the message, but I have my doubts.
Edit: y’all can go ahead and keep downvoting every time I mention this, I still haven’t seen a good solution for doing anything else that actually works for me. At least I’ll get a better camera out of it, though I will miss my back button. I just dont see the point of staying on certified android if fdroid and many community apps are going away. It was the primary reason I chose to leave ios for android in the first place.
I see “I need banking on my phone” repeated often. Is this because you prefer banking on a phone, because yoy find it convenient to be able to bank on the phone, or because you actually are unable to do any banking through a browser? If the latter, are there no other banks than the one you are currently using that offer browser-based banking?
If so, that sounds nightmarish and I really hope my country will not follow suit here anytime soon… Could you tell us which country you reside in (totally cool if you won’t)?
USA, and there are quite a few banks that only allow digital check deposits through their official app and not the website. Not having access to those is a dealbreaker for me, and I simply dont have the time or patience to switch banks and lose out on the advantages I chose my existing banks for, just to be able to switch phones. It would be a lot of work to keep the feature set I already have. Additionally, these banking apps tend to check if a phone has been rooted or jailbroken and will disable themselves if they see evidence of such.
Well, I’m likely going to iOS. I need to bank on my phone and those apps only work on iOS and android. If I’m going to be in a walled garden, I’m going to choose the nicer one. Hopefully google gets the message, but I have my doubts.
Edit: y’all can go ahead and keep downvoting every time I mention this, I still haven’t seen a good solution for doing anything else that actually works for me. At least I’ll get a better camera out of it, though I will miss my back button. I just dont see the point of staying on certified android if fdroid and many community apps are going away. It was the primary reason I chose to leave ios for android in the first place.
I see “I need banking on my phone” repeated often. Is this because you prefer banking on a phone, because yoy find it convenient to be able to bank on the phone, or because you actually are unable to do any banking through a browser? If the latter, are there no other banks than the one you are currently using that offer browser-based banking?
If so, that sounds nightmarish and I really hope my country will not follow suit here anytime soon… Could you tell us which country you reside in (totally cool if you won’t)?
USA, and there are quite a few banks that only allow digital check deposits through their official app and not the website. Not having access to those is a dealbreaker for me, and I simply dont have the time or patience to switch banks and lose out on the advantages I chose my existing banks for, just to be able to switch phones. It would be a lot of work to keep the feature set I already have. Additionally, these banking apps tend to check if a phone has been rooted or jailbroken and will disable themselves if they see evidence of such.
If you’re not willing to fight this crap then you have no right to complain down the road when they back you into a corner you don’t want to be in.
If you’re not part of the solution, then you’re likely part of the problem.
I can only fight so many battles, amigo