A Boring Dystopia

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Everything must be a subscription service (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sure, it's a fair criticism that they are trying to push a subscription. Coin is a little archaic, I personally never even have cash with me, but they could have an NFC tap for a single purchase.

But their subscription approach also makes sense and would benefit some frequent visitors. I assume it means you can use the subscription on all of their machines. And there's simply no easy way of doing that other than using an app. Could be a web app with QR code, I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yup, it's the lack of options that's bothering me. It's either tap water or a full blown app+subscription, nothing inbetween.

The reason I mentioned coins is because I think that cash should always remain an option even though I'm personally almost always using digital payments as well.