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Sounds like someone forgetting that for a large number of people, their mobile device is their only computer.
by dylan604 8mo ago
Sounds like someone forgetting that for a large number of people, their mobile device is their only computer.
- dehrmann 8mo agoI know this is true, but for serious tasks, I need the screen real estate. I'm amazed at what some people can do from a phone, but also wonder if they're missing things, of if it's actually inefficient.
- bjtitus 8mo agoI wouldn't call checking a bank balance and initiating transfers "serious tasks". Maybe important but they aren't complex.
- neutronicus 8mo agoOr if they go to the public library when those tasks come up.
- danielbln 8mo agoI'm going to bet that you are a millennial or older? We need our big screens for $IMPORTANT work (buying big things, money stuff, etc.). GenZ tends to be less bothered by it and just does it all on the tiny screen in their pocket. It's time to schedule a colonoscopy.
- twelve40 8mo agothat's kind of an ad hominem, but also beside the point: most bank apps (and websites) are actually absolute garbage, especially the top ones, just one example: the Citi app (on different phones) for a very long time refused to allow me to make a payment or change my password, so i had no choice but to use desktop. Somehow still, top banks' ugly websites seem to allow more functionality/fewer bugs than their mobile apps, which are very often just dumbed-down webviews or simplifications of their websites.
- danielbln 8mo agoYou may have missed that I've included myself in that cohort, being an older millennial. So it's less ad hominem, and more self-deprecating.
- havaloc 8mo agoMy boomer dad does more things on his phone than I do and I'm Gen X. It's actually astonishing how much he does on his iPhone. I'm dragging out the laptop and he's on his iPhone happy as a clam.
- danielbln 8mo agoI've heard that GenX/Millenials are in a sort of PC goldilocks zone. People older than that cohort don't know computers and therefore use phones for everything, people younger don't know computers and also use phones for everything.
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- havaloc 8mo agoI think this is a great generalization, I'm not sure I would have bothered with a PC if I had a smartphone as a child/teenager, but I also have no regrets about the smartphone free era I grew up in.
- user_7832 8mo agoThis depends a lot on too many factors. I'm not of your target age group, but not only me but most of my friends are similarly technically minded. Many of us were rooting our phones back in school, even though it wasn't needed of course.
- bloomingeek 8mo agoI'm a tech loving boomer, I always use my PC for banking, ordering, etc. My wife, however, almost always uses her cell, which is great for when we are traveling. Even though we're only five years apart in age, she's lite years ahead of me with a cell. I freely admit part of my reluctance for using my cell is the mobile tracking ability of companies.
- rgblambda 8mo agoI'm not sure I'm following, unless you're saying you don't carry your phone around with you? Your bank and Amazon/ebay already know your address.
- idiotsecant 8mo agoI used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
- dehrmann 8mo agoWhat if millennials are good at both and are choosing the right too for the job?
- agoodusername63 8mo agoIt's not seen as important enough for others. Just like with a lot of things. Sure you could do a thing better, faster, more efficiently on a PC, but some people just don't care when 80% is good enough.
- boxedemp 8mo agoPhone is probably the best tool for most minor online banking actions. Not all.
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- AdamN 8mo agoI'd also venture to say that most phones and bank apps are more secure than laptops and websites. Phones are much more locked down by the vendors.
- rkuykendall-com 8mo agoI am going to guess you are 30 or older. Google image search "laptop tasks millennial" to see that this is a feeling shared among our cohort but not the younger cohort.
- jama211 8mo agoDo you need it, or do you just feel more comfortable with it?
- nine_k 8mo agoThe efficiency of being able to do something at a moment's notice, on the go, anywhere and anytime may outweigh the conveniences of a larger screen. BTW newer mobile phones offer "desktop mode" (the Samsung Dex, and what came to AOSP), so you can attach them to a TV.
- crazygringo 8mo agoWhat "serious" tasks does banking involve? I log in to transfer money, to take a photo of a check to deposit it, to check my balance. All of that is fine on a phone screen. Actually, it's a lot easier to take the check photo. And a banking app is a whole lot more secure than a browser tab running extensions that might get hijacked, on a desktop OS whose architecture allows this like widespread disk access, keyloggers, etc.
- deejaaymac 8mo agoI do 100% of my banking from my GOS phone and I have like 7 bank apps
- bjtitus 8mo agoExactly. 96% of internet users use mobile phones. 62% use PCs.
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- freedomben 8mo agoBrowsers and websites work pretty well on mobile devices too. Website != desktop only
- dylan604 8mo agoIf you consider a website fully laden with ads as working. I have yet to find an ad blocker that works on my iOS/iPad OS that works as well as on my computer. I also hate apps with all of their invasive data hoarding that is much more controllable on my computer. So to me, websites on mobile are broken as they are full of malware vectors that are not present when looking at the same website on my non-mobile device. For me, website === desktop only
- thesuitonym 8mo agoIf your banks website has a bunch of ads on it, you should probably consider switching banks.
- dylan604 8mo agoSure, if you want to be obtuse about the comment, you'd be so cool in how you wouldn't be wrong.
- NetMageSCW 8mo agoI think we know who was being obtuse…
- rsync 8mo agoI encourage you to install the dns4eu ad blocking profile on your ios device. It’s free, it’s transparent, you can read the profile… And it takes two minutes.
- jama211 8mo agoThank you for this, had no idea this was a thing
- eloisant 8mo agoThat wasn't true before smartphones, everyone had a computer so they could access the Internet. Except maybe in developing countries - but the article is about the US.
- dylan604 8mo agoAt one point, humans had not stepped on the moon. At one point, we didn't know about antibiotics. At one point.... It doesn't matter what used to be, we're discussing what is now. We now have mobile devices that are much cheaper for people to obtain than a computer. For most, that device is more powerful than a computer they could afford. Arguing the fact that a vast number of people's only compute device is their mobile is just arguing with a fence post. It serves no purpose.
- Illniyar 8mo agoWe are not. We are discussing what killed the teller jobs, which happened years ago, not now.