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OT: why do you care which bank you're in?

by kungato 6y ago

fsflover 6y ago
Why would you allow Apple to decide which bank you must use?
- kungato 6y ago
  My bank doesnt support Google Pay so I switched. Life is full of obstacles but we should go around them and not through them. Only person you hurt in your case is yourself. Or you didn't really want to bother with the whole thing anyway so you stopped at the first issue
  - joshuaissac 6y ago
    The person you replied to is not the same one from the original story. And there are many reasons to prefer one bank to another; in the poster's case, switching to an Apple-supported bank might have introduced more obstacles to go through than it would have avoided.
  - rbecker 6y ago
    > Life is full of obstacles but we should go around them and not through them. Excellent example of short-term thinking. If everyone followed your advice, Google and Apple would be able to extort any bank in the world, until in addition to their software and ad near-monopolies, they'd also have a banking near-monopoly.
- rimliu 6y ago
  Why would you not allow Apple to decide what banks they want to deal with? If some bank has e.g. bad reputation because of some money laundering or terrorist money scandals, why would a business want to be associated with that?
gravitas 6y ago
As an American (banking system), I carefully choose which banks and credit unions I use based on a multitude of factors. Anecdotally many of my friends and colleagues are the same, the service and benefits (and hassles) vary greatly from one financial institution to another.
- kungato 6y ago
  Yeah I guess I'm asking from EU perspective where in 2 countries I haven't really experienced any difference between available banks. I just went with first advice and haven't really noticed something was missing
9HZZRfNlpR 6y ago
I personally want to do banking with my local bank so the money flows to local economy not to some big American international company. I think this is a very good reason out-of many.

OT: why do you care which bank you're in?

fsflover 6y ago

Why would you allow Apple to decide which bank you must use?

kungato 6y ago
My bank doesnt support Google Pay so I switched. Life is full of obstacles but we should go around them and not through them. Only person you hurt in your case is yourself. Or you didn't really want to bother with the whole thing anyway so you stopped at the first issue
- joshuaissac 6y ago
  The person you replied to is not the same one from the original story. And there are many reasons to prefer one bank to another; in the poster's case, switching to an Apple-supported bank might have introduced more obstacles to go through than it would have avoided.
- rbecker 6y ago
  > Life is full of obstacles but we should go around them and not through them. Excellent example of short-term thinking. If everyone followed your advice, Google and Apple would be able to extort any bank in the world, until in addition to their software and ad near-monopolies, they'd also have a banking near-monopoly.
rimliu 6y ago
Why would you not allow Apple to decide what banks they want to deal with? If some bank has e.g. bad reputation because of some money laundering or terrorist money scandals, why would a business want to be associated with that?

gravitas 6y ago

As an American (banking system), I carefully choose which banks and credit unions I use based on a multitude of factors. Anecdotally many of my friends and colleagues are the same, the service and benefits (and hassles) vary greatly from one financial institution to another.

kungato 6y ago
Yeah I guess I'm asking from EU perspective where in 2 countries I haven't really experienced any difference between available banks. I just went with first advice and haven't really noticed something was missing

9HZZRfNlpR 6y ago

I personally want to do banking with my local bank so the money flows to local economy not to some big American international company. I think this is a very good reason out-of many.