11 comments

  • suprjami an hour ago

    When buying a new phone, doesn't everyone sit down and set everything up so it all works when you want it next?

  • nagonago an hour ago

    I appreciate the frustration and ridiculousness of having to use an app just to open a door, but over half of these steps are just things you have to do when you get a new phone anyway.

  • winterbloom an hour ago

    the vast majority of things are on you, if you had a working phone, it would just be install an app, login, and it works

    it is better than having to carry keys around

    • nemomarx an hour ago

      For an office door, why not a key card or lanyard badge or whatever? A code? I feel like you could use something easier than an app too.

      • iamnothere 21 minutes ago

        Key cards/badges don’t have GPS in them and can’t keep tabs on you outside the office.

      • SoftTalker an hour ago

        You're in a rush in the morning and you leave home without your badge.

        Happens to me at least once a month. But I almost never don't have my phone.

      • eichin an hour ago

        it's sold as harder to copy (and easier to revoke when you're doing layoffs - which shouldn't have been a really challenge for card-based systems, they're just old and didn't keep up.)

        • bigfatkitten an hour ago

          Neither of these are challenges at all for semi-modern card systems.

  • fuzzfactor 13 minutes ago

    It probably takes more than 12 steps to break habitual phone use all the time too :\

  • bborud an hour ago

    It’s pretty much anything these days that requires authentication.

  • smitty1e an hour ago

    The feeling of becoming the product and requiring a Familiar loaded with Apps that amount to passive spyware cannot be escaped.

    Very glad to be closing in on retirement.