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The banking sector is changing for more of a retail commerce platform and most of banks are giving more options within apps.
For the record Fuck the banks i am just answering you why people prefer the apps.
I suppose I've been lucky. I use my phone for calls, texts, and browsing the web. I've never had to use it for banking as I handle that at home on a pc for well over a decade now.
More people carry a smartphone nowadays than those that have a computer at home. Banks are not stupid; they cater to the clientele and that clientele is shifting towards apps at an accelerated pace. There are a couple of banks operating in my country that don't even have any other access but their app: no website, no physical locations.
I would leave my bank the moment they stopped supporting browser access. I'm not relying on an app to handle banking.
From what I've gathered, needing banking apps to participate in society is growing more common in Europe than the US, but i could be wrong there.
Very well, reasonable, but why exactly?
I don't trust apps and the pc handles websites better. You don't know what background services are running on an app and how much data they are skimming off of your device, even with restricted permissions. Phones are a privacy nightmare.
App support has an unknown timeline for support on any given phone. Do you have an older phone, they may stop support forcing you to upgrade or use a different bank.