Why don't you download the apps of your most common TOCs and ticket websites? You can ''save'' your card or use biometric security on your phone, then all you do is select the journey and pay and tickets ready in five seconds and you can do all this before you reach your station, the day, week or months before, you may even get the luxury of selecting your seat.
Incompatible phone, lack of storage space and not trusting the app not to hog data or battery or be snoopy are often -given reasons. Why doesn't some retailer make an easier website?
That's what an app is.
How much space does an app use for a ticket? Once you've bought the ticket you can access it at all times, you don't have to google it each time you want to check the ticket. My fingerprint unlocks my phone screen so who's gonna nick that?
It is not the space for a ticket that is a concern, it is the space and (nosiness) of the app itself.
It comes back to what many have already said above. What do you mean by 'incompatible phone'. Your phone is almost certainly an Andriod or IPhone. Which apos are incompatible with these?
How much space? I just checked. I have 151 apps on my phone, with no sign of running out of spce.
Depends how they’re implemented. Some phone apps are basically just the browser loading a version of the provider’s website and with the usual browser menus etc, disabled.
You want something that is actually getting security updates? I liked Windows Phone, I had two generations of Lumia. But I wouldn't want to put a device on the internet that isn't supported by the manufacturer any more.
With all respect, using a phone with an operating system no longer being updated, whilst it may well be perfectly fine for basic use, is so unusual a situation as not to be an argument against using apps for tickets.
Data released by Google last month saix over 40% of android phones are on versions no longer getting current security updates (Android 8 or earlier) , so not such a minority. I think Google has released this news to try to get people to buy new phones, but people will resist while it mostly works for them because of both money and planet worries, and once they do upgrade then the old ones might be sold on.
I don't have a TOC app installed, but the Trainsplit one on my Android phone claims to be using 45.20 MB.
According to statcounter over 85% of android phones in the uk are on version 9 or above of Android.
The ones people dare use on the internet without protection that stops Statcounter tracking them. I think Google is closer to the true figure.
How would moving them out and about improve the advice they could give?
But if the advice is that the ticket the person wants is unavailable (which was the point the poster made) then it is still incorrect.
You assume a binary split between “can’t” and “won’t”. From bitter experience over the last 15 years, I’m very conscious of a middle ground, which might better be described as “mental block”. Lots of effort has been invested in training to use mobiles and tablets, but still the (entirely mentally sound) individual in question cannot get his head around the use of these devices in ways that this 40-something regards as instinctive.
