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I 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 missin
by dehrmann 7mo ago
I 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 7mo agoI wouldn't call checking a bank balance and initiating transfers "serious tasks". Maybe important but they aren't complex.
- neutronicus 7mo agoOr if they go to the public library when those tasks come up.
- danielbln 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo agoWhat if millennials are good at both and are choosing the right too for the job?
- agoodusername63 7mo 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 7mo agoPhone is probably the best tool for most minor online banking actions. Not all.
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- AdamN 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo agoDo you need it, or do you just feel more comfortable with it?
- nine_k 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo agoI do 100% of my banking from my GOS phone and I have like 7 bank apps