>I get difficulties with banks, because I have no Google playstore and we live in a world worse than Orwell's 1984 or Fahrenheit 451 could imagine.
It's such a shame we're locked into platform-specific apps. If only there was some way banks etc could make some kind off app that runs on any platform.
What if we had some sort of... app like thing - documents with interactive elements and media, even code that runs (safely sandboxed), but not tied to any one platform.
We could have one central app, a platform within a platform, that fetches and displays these documents, which are made according to a set of specifications and standards that can be implemented freely by anyone. It wouldn't be easy or cheap to do so, but the engines could be open source so that new OSes could still run them.
I don't know... it's probably a crazy, unrealistic idea.
Sadly, since no such thing exists, the banks have no choice but to lock us into the Android-iPhone duopoly.
It's such a shame we're locked into platform-specific apps. If only there was some way banks etc could make some kind off app that runs on any platform.
What if we had some sort of... app like thing - documents with interactive elements and media, even code that runs (safely sandboxed), but not tied to any one platform.
We could have one central app, a platform within a platform, that fetches and displays these documents, which are made according to a set of specifications and standards that can be implemented freely by anyone. It wouldn't be easy or cheap to do so, but the engines could be open source so that new OSes could still run them.
I don't know... it's probably a crazy, unrealistic idea.
Sadly, since no such thing exists, the banks have no choice but to lock us into the Android-iPhone duopoly.