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Nothing is stopping you. You're free to use a desktop web app that either doesn't work or is terribly slow or has limited features on a mobile web browser. I'd
by owaislone 2mo ago
Nothing is stopping you. You're free to use a desktop web app that either doesn't work or is terribly slow or has limited features on a mobile web browser. I'd love it if all apps were PWAs but that is not the case.
- georgeecollins 2mo agoMy broker has a much more fully featured web app then it does on iOS or Android. You can do things in a browser that the phone apps will send you to a browser to do. BofA is just as good of a web app. Maybe people are just used to using their phones?
- georgeecollins 2mo agoLooking down the thread I am also thinking maybe this is a Europe thing? I am usa.
- fsflover 2mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363246 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363246
- limagnolia 2mo agoCan you deposit checks from the webapp? That is the feature most often missing in banking webapps. It isn't something I need often, fortunately.
- qmmmur 2mo agoThe majority of the world don’t do this anymore.
- DirkH 1mo agoThis is true but the problem is every now and again some of us have to deposit a cheque because even if we would love for cheques to go the way of the Canadian penny they are very much still a thing
- Geof25 2mo agoAsking for a cheque deposit is like asking for a car with a hand crank. People outside USA are going to look at you like on a member of a Sentinel tribe.
- U8dcN7vx 1mo agoNo you cannot, as of yesterday. The mobile app doesn't even allow your choice of camera app, to avoid even the tiny amount of fraud that doing so might enable.
- yencabulator 1mo agoFWIW in the USA, ally.com lets you upload jpegs from a desktop browser for all your 70s banking needs.
- owaislone 1mo agoGood for you. Nobody is challenging what a web app can or cannot do. I love PWAs but services I need every day either don't have a web interface at all, have limited features or are unusable on a small screen let alone having a PWA. This is not about technical abilities but about what companies actually do.
- thesuitonym 2mo agoThat's not terribly compelling. Android and iOS banking apps also don't work, are terribly slow, and have limited features.
- mikestew 2mo agoEh? The bank apps I’ve seen appear to be webviews wrapping their mobile site. Much to my chagrin, I’ll add.