Apple Says iPhone Driver's Licenses Coming to These U.S. States Next
In select U.S. states, residents can add their driver's license or state ID to the Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch, providing a...
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Riddle me this: Why would I want such critical documentation stored on devices built like eggshells?
At least I can drop my physical ID card and can guarantee you it won't break, unless I drop it in lava..
This isn't instead of, this is in addition to.
Also how often are you breaking your phone? in 15 years of owning a smart phone I've broken 1 screen. Even then it was only a minor crack and the phone was still perfectly usable.
To add to my previous comment, the second screen turned out to be slightly smaller and partly incompatible and glitchy (damn eBay seller sent me an incompatible screen, that just happened to sorta work).
So I ordered the third screen for it, the now busted one I'm using now. It's only busted because of the previously mentioned humidity infiltration causing the touchscreen to go nuts, so I smacked the screen with my palm to try to reseat the connections without opening it back up.
I actually can't open this phone back up without destroying the currently cracked screen, the double sided tape caught between the front glass and the screen, and any attempt to try to remove it is trying to peel the screen layers apart now.
These plus other reasons related to the Right To Repair struggles is why I quit working on mobile technology for anyone other than myself. The big companies simply try to make things impossible to fix these days ☹️
This phone (the one with the zillion cracks) is also still perfectly usable. As long as I don't carry it with me anywhere, it has to stay home.
After the first screen replacement, it lost its water resistance. Not like I go stirring my drinks with it or whatever, but humidity from sweat in my pocket will get into it, and the touchscreen will go bonkers!
Yes, I replaced the screen myself, I've done thousands of screen replacements before, that was my job for around 8 years.
But when the phone only has like half a millimeter of edge space for the double sided tape to adhere to, there's basically no way to get that slim of tape to keep water or even humidity out.
Eggshell technology...
I prefer mobile pay. But don’t usually leave my traditional forms of payment at home.
Seems similar.
I have 5 phones, and only one has the NFC feature, and it's on its third screen, that's busted into a zillion pieces and not suitable to carry with me.
I'm not too keen on anything I need to outright rely on being stored on eggshell technology.
Besides, you do realize hackers can just bump into you in the store and steal your money wirelessly right?
lol what?
Please link a single example of someone stealing from Apple Pay by bumping into a user.
I'm not even gonna bother, there's a reason our boss bought us Faraday cage wallets and phone cases for Christmas. Ever heard of a Flipper Zero?
What's your blood pressure like? You seem like you're afraid of your own shadow.
135/65 after riding my BMX bike around 10 miles.
If you were in my shoes and your bank denied direct deposit tax returns into your own bank account, you'd have trust issues with any sort of digital money transfer too.
I'm not scared of shit, I'm aware of my surroundings and how the system has fucked me over. I've never had that sort of problem with physical paper cash money and checks.
Even the bank manager couldn't explain why their own damn bank denied my tax return deposit. I did end up getting my tax return though, but via physical paper check instead, since fuck digital money, it's never worked for me.
Paper works fine though.
Maybe you should try buying a better phone? Or not awful knockoff screens from ebay. Nicer phones do legitimately have MUCH more durable screens. So even though the bezel might be thin the screen can handle drops a lot better.
I don't even care, I've never bought a phone before. I wouldn't even have one if other people didn't insist on getting me one. Hence, I have more phones than I need.
And my best tech phone is also the most damaged, the one I'm using right now. It has 44 sensors including LIDAR, but the replaced front screen is busted now (don't let anyone lie to you and say Gorilla Glass is invincible, it most certainly isn't, my bare palm broke it), the back glass is busted, the battery is worn pretty well, and the logic board is blacklisted, so it's WiFi only anyways.
I've literally never bought a phone before, I never wanted one in the first place. I'm naturally a desktop/laptop sort of guy, it's just family, friends and employers that insist I have a phone.
Wonder why I have more of a tendency to break phones? I've spent years riding BMX flatland, and a couple decades working on vehicles and bicycles.
Do you know what it's like to get a phone call while your hands are covered in engine oil? Or just simply riding a bicycle down the street, listening to music on your phone, and a simple speedbump makes your phone slip out of your pocket and hit the pavement?
I like technology that lasts a long time and doesn't have to be treated like an eggshell.
Sometimes I forget my wallet, but I still have my mobile payments. It’s nice to have the option of the same backup for ID. If it was mandatory digital I would change my opinion.
I sleep with my wallet in my pocket. I've never lost my wallet, and short of a mugging, I most likely never will. The only time I leave my wallet out of my pocket is when I shower and change clothes.
Not only does it contain my ID, it also contains my barebones emergency survival kit. A credit card sized folding pocket knife, credit card sized Freznel lens that can start fires, and an emergency prescription eyeglass lens mounted in a keyring in case I ever lose my glasses.
Those things won't break or lose charge either.
The keyring glasses lens is a great idea.
Well thank you kindly for that 👍
Yeah, it came from an old dated pair of prescription glasses, still plenty close enough for emergency use. So, I took a lens from my old glasses and ground the edges down on a bench grinder to clip into a keyring that's probably just over the size of a quarter.
To see the indent of it in my wallet, you'd think it was a condom LOL! But nope, my vision is more important to me than anything else, I can't even function in this world without my glasses.
Thankfully I've never needed it since I made it, but I'll be damned if I'm ever gonna lose it!