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Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

I use a dumbphone. I’m not buying a smartphone just so I can play these stupid games, and I’m installing an app for every fucking business I interact with. I realize there will one day be a point where I won’t be able to do things I need to do without one, but until then I have no desire for one. Fortunately they haven’t made the parking meters here require a smartphone yet.

My grocery store still uses loyalty cards for most discounts (which is irritating enough), but also has “digital coupons” that require an app so I can’t get that. Theoretically I could go to their website and print them off but that’s not worth the effort. I have to pay close attention to the price signs they put up because some of them say “with digital coupon” in small print, meaning “not for you, bitch”. You know who doesn’t pull this kind of shit? Walmart. So I wind up getting a lot of my groceries there so as not to be discriminated against.

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AlwaysNurture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Flipphones… I want a full keyboard phone again. Maybe even a slider full keyboard. Those were the days.

Apps… I evade most apps as much as i can or if i must use closed source apps, i will put them in a secondary profile.

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- bruhduh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  store.planetcom.co.uk/products/astro-slide
  
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  - AlwaysNurture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Those are laptop keys on a phone, i have seen one of these before, i wonder if there are those with older “phone like” keyboards?
    
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  - glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    holy balls that thing looks amazing, is it good?
    
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- leadore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I have a flip phone with a touchscreen so I can type via the onscreen keyboard. When I bought it I wondered how well it would work since the screen is so small, but it works great! So much easier than using the keypad. BTW it also has maps with voice navigation.
  
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  - AlwaysNurture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Oh that is pretty cool!
    
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cheers_queers@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Walmart doesn’t let you use contactless pay unless you use their app. several times now I’ve gone there to grab a few things, not realizing i didn’t have my card with me, and had to leave a full cart behind because i will not install their adware.

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- leadore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  Walmart doesn’t let you use contactless pay unless you use their app.
  
  By “contactless pay” I assume you’re talking about paying by using a smartphone app? Obviously I don’t care about that because the whole point of my post is that I’m not using a smartphone, so obviously I have no apps of any kind.
  
  But if by “contactless pay” you meant paying with your debit card by tapping it or holding it near the card reader, yes they do have that like everyone else.
  
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- s_s@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Back in the day, Walmart and Apple fought over contactless pay standards for the US.
  
  Apple’s standard was eventually mass adopted, and has Walmart refused to license the tech. So you have to use their app, which uses their own tech stack.
  
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