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Problem I have: I need my banking app, my bank id app and instant-bank-money-transfer app that doesn't exist for Ubuntu Phone. Without those apps, paying invoi
by staticelf 11y ago
Problem I have: I need my banking app, my bank id app and instant-bank-money-transfer app that doesn't exist for Ubuntu Phone.
Without those apps, paying invoices takes too much time. I can't transfer money to my CC when I need it and I can't transfer money to my friends.
But worst of all, I can't login to 90% of all the governmental services that require bank id. They all exist for my Windows Phone though, which is an underdog enough for me.
- Freak_NL 11y agoDoesn't the bank have a web-application with feature parity with their Android and IOS apps? I would expect to be able to do the same things with on-line banking, regardless of the operating system I run or device I use (provided I have a modern web browser).
- filleokus 11y agoI would guess staticelf lives in Sweden just based on the apps they mentioned. If that is the case, yes, you can access most of the major banks online, but to do anything like paying bills or transferring money to accounts which are not yours, you basically need to use a 2FA. Either some kind of hardware fob or the Bank ID app staticelf mentioned. Personally I could never move away from a plattform without support for the Bank ID application, I use it multiple times a day to authenticate / sign stuff, and keeping the hardware fob with me is too cumbersome. And as staticelf noted, all of the non-bank sites (e.g government services) don't even support the hardware fobs.
- staticelf 11y agoYes the issue is that the Swedish governtment refuses to implement it's own identification platform so now "bank id" has become the facto standard. Bank id is a closed solution and thus will render using any other device than android, ios or windows phone a pain in the butt.
- logicrook 11y agoProblem I have: I am dependent on MEGAcorp. MEGAcorp does not like freedom. So free solutions are not good. Do you see the problem?
- stephenr 11y ago> Do you see the problem? You think Canonical is a bastion of free software? Is that the problem? I'm pretty sure that's the problem.
- logicrook 11y agoThe point I'm making does not involve Canonical. When discussing a switch to Linux, most people answer with something like "oh but it should support X (MEGAcorp product) so I can't switch". It should support .docx, or whatever latest proprietary protocols. And when this is implemented, there will be a new shiny closed thing to have. Also, in its current form your comment is just a Perfect Solution Fallacy.
- chaosfox 11y agoexcept docx is an open format..
- Freak_NL 11y agoNominally, OOXML is an open format. But in practice it is littered with legacy Microsoft Office stuff only Word can do right and weird hacks. LibreOffice/OpenOffice do a good job in implementing OOXML, but despite these efforts .docx documents often have lots of little issues when opened outside of Microsoft Office. Compare the OOXML standard's 6000 pages to ODF's 600. I have worked with both for the purpose of generating documents from scratch, and OOXML is a monster. Not to mention the ballot-stuffing that occurred to get OOXML accepted as an ISO-standard… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open...
- criley2 11y ago