Gregory's Server@aral what about banking?
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@aral not really, consider that kids don't usually have bank accounts and are fine with using cash. Why can't adult live that way?  @aurisc4 Kids can live that way because they have parents with bank accounts. So should you be able to live without using a bank? Yes. Is it practical to? Not really. Should it be legal to require either an Apple or Google phone to have a bank account? No. @aral strange to say it, but it's sad that Windows Phone died. Even though Microsoft is no better in this context, but competition between 3 is better than 2. Were there 5-6 options for smartphone, landscape likely would be much much different.  @aral @jernej__s @aurisc4 something like 4.5% of US households do not have any sort of bank account, according to the FDIC is 2021. https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/household-survey/index.html Paychecks are just that, checks that you can cash. Or you get paid in cash.  @aurisc4 @aral I don't think banking is a good analogy here. My (US-based) bank has online banking independent of my phone platform. And I do have the option of in-branch banking. If the bank won't provide this, I can bank elsewhere. Medical providers can be local monopolies, especially for specialty care. The neighborhood neurosurgeon or oncologist may not have any local competition. Which means you may be forced into a duopoly phone, just to access medical care. Yeah actually I don't agree with the sentiment, 'get rid of technology' - as it's not technology that's the problem. The problem is the private profit-driven model. Which means we're all going to hell in a hand-basket. Tragically, as it's so silly and unnecessary... we all seem to be running up this dead-end street. 'Dead' being the operative word :ablobeyes: Seems we unfortunately adopted tech before evolving out of our core competitive reptilian brains. Oops. |
@aurisc4 That is a necessity of modern life, wouldn’t you say?