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> Digital transit cards like the new digital wallet clipper card in the bay area are cool though Until they say "oh yeah, today it doesn't work on Android".. o
by sofixa 4y ago
> Digital transit cards like the new digital wallet clipper card in the bay area are cool though
Until they say "oh yeah, today it doesn't work on Android".. or "it doesn't work on certain Androids"... what the actual fuck? San Francisco/Bay Area, tech capital of the world, can't get their shit transit's pass to be cross-platform?
A month ago, two Android phones that both work for everything possible in multiple EU countries, one just doesn't work for Clipper, trying to use the card says "invalid card". And of course there is no check before you add money to it, so you're stuck with money on the card you can't get out of without going to one specific office that might be able to help you (different people said different things)
- jeroenhd 4y agoThis is a weird thing I notice with a lot of American tech. Stuff first gets brought to market somewhere around Silicon Valley and amazing technologies are invented all across the country, but when it comes to reliably rolling out such tech it just seems to get stuck somewhere. Meanwhile over here in Europe we have to wait a couple of years for tech to come over, but when it finally does, it seems to work almost universally. You'd expect that stuff managed in software would get its patches way before European implementations receive them in their improved form, but it's as if this stuff just gets rolled out once in the USA and then never gets looked after again. I'd be incredibly frustrated seeing other countries get some frustrating details right when the tech was invented in my own country!