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>means I can't use banking apps, or government apps (eg. Track&Trace or recently the EU Settled Status app) Can't you use a web browser for those things?
by bluecatswim 6y ago
>means I can't use banking apps, or government apps (eg. Track&Trace or recently the EU Settled Status app)
Can't you use a web browser for those things?
- mato 6y agoHere /Europe/ some banks are starting to require the use of mobile apps for authenticating transactions, instead of providing hardware tokens. When I ran into this problem they told me: "either pay us X EUR/month extra for Business Banking or, no hardware token for you". Calculated that (X * 12) < (cost of cheap Nokia Android phone), and got the latter which I keep in flight mode in a desk drawer and use for the banking app only.
- jay_kyburz 6y agoI have an old broken iPhone on my desk for similar a reason. Australian tax office _requires_ you to have an Android or iPhone to login (MyGov App). Even if I am trying to do things on my desktop.
- andmikey 6y agoGovernment apps no - both require a 'modern' Android or iPhone. Banking apps partially - I can't use the web browser on my phone (it doesn't support modern enough crypto) but I can use the web browser on my laptop. Mostly it's that I've not been able to try any of the online-only challenger banks ;)
- throwaway3699 6y agoFor track and trace at least, it relies on the Google and Apple contact tracing APIs.