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I would have to REALLY love your service to want to carry around an extra device to use it.
by jbeam 7y ago
I would have to REALLY love your service to want to carry around an extra device to use it.
- shadowgovt 7y ago... or find it really necessary. Banks, for example, have the clout to expect this kind of behavior. The built-up reputation and long-term partnerships a company and a bank build up can out-value all kinds of IT inconveniences.
- uglycoyote 7y agoI don't know if you meant from the consumer perspective, but if my bank started telling me what kind of a phone or computer I needed to have to use their services I would definitely find another bank! I'm not sure if clout is the right word for what what banks have, it's more like a kind of lock-in because of having to sign a million pieces of paper to change banks, that makes people put up with a certain amount of IT inconvenience, coupled with the fact that usually the competition is equally inconvenient.
- shadowgovt 7y agoYou might, but there's a long history of bank websites only working in Internet Explorer, and it was only in recent years that this changed.
- oefrha 7y agoMy bank logs me out after ten minutes of idling, not seven days. Not sure what kind of crazy bank allows you to persist login session / personal data indefinitely.
- shadowgovt 7y agoI was responding specifically to the question "I would have to REALLY love your service to want to carry around an extra device to use it." Some people's banks require their users to carry around a rotating 2FA key dongle, for example.
- jamil7 7y agoWhich is included in the cost of opening an account with the bank, you're not told to go buy this device off Amazon.