The original point was “let users access online banking and manage assets”, not whether you could “pull [it] out in the town square to make payments”. As an aside, why the town square? It’s oddly specific and is a phrase I’ve mostly read in stupid comments about Twitter in the last couple of years.
> The original point was “let users access online banking and manage assets”,
e.g. Can you pay for groceries with it like you can with a phone? Can you use it to pay for food at a restaurant, buy train tickets, or many other things are in many cases cashless.
"access online banking and manage asset" is a shorter way of saying all of the myriad of ways people need to use online banking day to day.
> a phrase I’ve mostly read in stupid comments about Twitter in the last couple of years.
Many moons ago I decided to rip everything to AAC, until one day I brought cd full of mp4 files to my dad’s car…and realized that none of them could be played.
> Enhanced Classic icon theme (used with Win98 Second Edition, WinME, Win2K systems) from MicroSoft Memphis project for GNU/Linux inspired by Chicago95 theme (actually it’s a manual copy-paste fork) of Grassmunk with icons in Windows 98 SE style added and/or created by myself.
Chicago95 is nice, but these days you should also install the (experimental) GTK+4 theme from b00merang https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 to get proper styling in the latest apps. That repo also has configs for Cinnamon, GNOME-Shell and MATE desktops in addition to the Xfce which Chicago95 also provides. (Unfortunately it has not been updated for some time, whereas Chicago95 is more up to date.)
My wife actually uses Google Maps a lot for restaurants and places to go when we are traveling outside our country, but not for navigation. I find that funny, since this is a Maps app after all.
As for navigations it's either Apple Maps or Waze, depending on the country.
In a lot of cities (think Asia, Europe) GMaps is still significantly better.
Especially for walking and in less common places.
In Ghent, Belgium, Apple Maps wanted to let me walk a ~20min detour and follow car streets whereas GMaps correctly allowed me to walk on pedestrian-only roads.
GMaps is usually better for the social aspect: reviews at restaurants, places, etc.
But for walking outside cities, both are really terrible. Mapy.cz (previously maps.me) is an order of magnitude better
And for driving, Waze is usually the best. Police controls will be shown, and in some countries, especially outside EU + US, Waze is better at finding a car road, while GMaps may sugges a shortcut through a river.
I found the opposite to be true in many European cities including Brussels, London, Cologne, and especially Antwerp where the metro tram network was fatally error-laden on Google Maps.
Yeah EU is stricter, but for lot of my clients US is a large market, without they themselves being in the US. If you are EU based then it's cheaper to pay EU tax and not US tax.
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