Subj : Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
To   : Arelor
From : Andeddu
Date : Sun Jul 11 2021 13:42:03

  Re: Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
  By: Arelor to Andeddu on Sat Jul 10 2021 05:22 pm

 > The problem is when they try to sell you a *something* that happens to be a
 > non-working product,
 > you declare it is a non-working product and that you want your old working
 > product back, and what
 > you get is "that's what progress is all about."
 >
 > "Update yourself man, banking over mobile applications is the future!"
 >
 > I am fine with it being the future, but if the mobile platform is failing
 > more often than not I
 > want to be able to do my banking over a regular web browser. It sucks when
 > they remove a product
 > that used to work and replace it by something that does not.
 >
 > Here is this, my old home ISP used to run a Wimax nerwork for rural
 > settlements that was quite ok.
 > One day the shut it down and told every customer to switch over to a home 4G
 > plan. The only problem
 > was, the reason why people had signed up for the Wimax plans instead of a 4G
 > one was precisely
 > because mobile plans in this area dare unstable, suffer from data caps, and
 > place customers behind
 > massive CG-NATs. The ISP tried to convince everybody that moving to 4G was a
 > better more modern
 > system. "The future" and "getting on with the times."
 >
 > What happened is people switched over to ANOTHER ISP that still offered
 > Wimax.
 >
 > I suspect it is part of this trend of having end users be the beta testers
 > of your technology. They
 > don't sell you working solutions anymore, they sell you half-baked ones and
 > the promise that it
 > will work tomorrow.

I understand your gripe and I disagree with ISPs and businesses meddling with
applications and websites people still use because certain technologies are
unavailable to them. The mobile banking app I use is a godsend... I've never
had any issues with it, I can do whatever I want in seconds and don't even have
to type in a password to gain access due to facial recognition -- I remember
when I had to type in codes and use third-party authentication devices.

The problem is that big corporations seem to forget that there are people who
live remotely with no real access to superfast mobile dataplans or even the
internet on some occasions. They'll close down bank branches and all that
becuase they have call centres and mobile banking forgetting that there are
people who depend on face-to-face business. It's all about money in the end and
it probably wouldn't be much of an issue once rural internet coverage is
improved... for instance, if you could receive a strong 4G connection, you
wouldn't have much of a problem moving onto their chosen management/payment
platforms.

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