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Why are you asking this? The OP just stated their view. They stated battery drain being an issue and that they dislike the requirement to have a phone on you at all times. I can relate to that especially with the size and weight of today's phones. There is also the issue of being locatable.
> "I don't want to inconvenience myself by having to have my phone. But I don't mind if others are inconvenienced by being required to have a credit card"
They never said they want others to be required to have a credit card. You are making this up. Why don't companies accept both?
Every business chooses which customer it is trying to fit and which customer not to fit.
Credit cards aren’t ideal, but there are also debit cards and they work just as well. Of course, there are different tradeoffs: what if you paid with a different card than the one in your pocket?
Still, Ryanair requiring printouts is a joke.
You are free to go on Amazon and buy an unlocked cheap Android phone for $30.
I think you don't even realize how stupid it is.
PS: I did not ever gave 1 cent to Amazon, feel "free" to do so as well.
Do you not think it takes an entire "cloud infrastructure" for the museum to take credit cards?
I don't care unless this become a mandatory de-facto standard to access public places.
Hopefully yet it is not, and people would reject that if that would become an obligation. But there's a chance that our children would not even know this is bare dumb cause it would be the norm.
Why should the world bend to your desires?
Why should we accept a smartphone-dependent society ? Because it pleases you or because this is imposed by the top and you just accept it, then find all the other just being morons ? :)
You don't have to. The Amish haven't. I have no problem with them making that choice either.
Yeah those are both extreme points. But this is really violent to wish no middle in between.
As we expressed before in this topic, applications, websites and their back-ends depends themselves on lots of other things to be reliable. Not even considering security issues or privacy abuses that are reportedly common. This is not an individual problem, it's a society choice that does not seems to be advised.
I'm not against adding methods for accessing such places with some computer connected to a network just like smartphone, smart watches and stuff... If this can be useful, handy and neutral as tools should stay.
Still, I personally don't wish to find myself or anyone reduced, worse, denied by not wearing a specific smartphone (that would even maybe require to accept and sign many private third party conditions) for enjoying a direct interaction with "normal" people having a restaurant or a museum for example.
I would consider extreme to think that, because "everyone have a smartphone" then it should be normal to require that for everything. Implying (not blindly) accepting whole bunches of consequences (that most people seems to want to ignore because otherwise they would feel reduced or rejected) coming with.
Perhaps we don't see the same reality under the same prism and education. This is is not some point. It's just to say... What I sadly observe in general is a total lack of competence or understanding of the information technologies, actors and implications. And outside the fact it is another great source of pollution, they also represent a good opportunity for locking down people and tracking them from bad actors intentions.
So, I wish that it won't be misused or forced, particularly in situations were this wipes-out the freedom to do simple things that works fine, in any ways. Just what's in my mind if we would ask me my opinion.
Thanks for your exchanges there.
Is this your response when anyone shares their opinion on a topic? Like why should anyone say anything if this is considered a meaningful response?
Anyway I am doubtful they are pushing for a credit card-governed world.
2. Presumably a debit card on the same network would work just as well. What’s the credit + debit card penetration rate?
https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/how-many-americans-have-sm....
4.5% of the US is "unbanked". So now we are talking about 4.5% vs 9% and the overlap is probably small.
And before you say poor people probably don't have smart phones. 94% of homeless people have cell phones. The percentage of poor people with cell phones is probably higher.
https://priceschool.usc.edu/news/homeless-los-angeles-cell-p....
(No I'm not judging homeless people for having a life line for survival)
Because I'm the one spending the money. If you make it harder for me to spend money with you, I'm going to spend less money with you.
> Cell phone penetration in the US - 97$
> Credit card pentration in the US - 70%
Sure. But most credit cards don't have batteries that die.
And I as a business owner must be okay with it. See how freedom of choice works? We can both choose which parameters we operate within.
That's just like Uber has chosen not to have a call dispatch center where you can call them if you want a ride.