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Why do you need an app for that? In what word does an insurer not provide such information on their mobile website?

The same where a bank doesn't provide the same data and services on their website than on their phone application. And that application in addition to being region-locked requires a non-rooted phone with GApps installed.

I do wonder if there's something like RDP but for phones.. Like if you could keep a burner phone on somewhere at home maybe and RDP into it to use these crappy malware apps so that they don't complain.

Would require transparent file and copy buffers I guess. In addition to remote desktop functions.

It would be nice to have a more polished version, but haven't played around with it for 5 minutes I can tell you that just gluing together scrcpy and your choice of Xephyr+x11vnc / headless Wayland compositor + wayvnc works surprisingly well. I haven't tried yet since I just wanted to know if it would work at all, but I can't see any reason why you couldn't do the same thing with RDP or even noVNC or Apache Guacamole.

> The same where a bank doesn't provide the same data and services on their website than on their phone application.

I'm sure this exists (and clearly so does the insurance company practice), but I've never run into it — bank websites always have the same or more functionality than the phone app. Except maybe something like mobile deposit.

One of my credit cards is from bank that shut down its website functionality (virgin money).

One of my credit cards has no web functionality at all, you can only interact with it through an app. This impacts me since it means my accounting software can't log into it and fetch data.

On one of my account, you can't add a recipient without waiting 72h, unless you have the mobile phone app. You need two 2FA, unless you have the mobile phone push. Graphs and payment categorization are only available on the application.

And what world is that?

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