Because this topic came up in c/technology and I was wondering.

Would this be feasible? How bad would it be to your social life?

I’m looking for these scenarios:

  1. No smartphone, but have a dumbphone and a computer

  2. No phone at all, but have a computer

  3. No smartphone, but have a dumbphone, no computer

  4. Nothing at all

  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
    45·
    2 days ago

    it’s not even about a smartphone, it’s about being allowed to access services with said smartphone.

    when the ticket machine was removed from a train station in rural sweden and replaced with a note on how to buy tickets online, it instantly locked three types of people out: people who don’t have a smartphone, people who don’t have a payment card, and tourists. because it required online verification, you basically needed a swedish phone number and id to buy tickets.

    this was about eight years ago, so smartphone penetration was lower, but i still think about the people i met at the train station while i desperately tried to order tickets over the phone and kept getting stuck in their automated phone tree. they were basically stuck there.

      • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
        27·
        2 days ago

        it wasn’t intentional. they just didn’t think about how to implement it. took them four or five years to fix.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I guess it depends on how you needed to sign up to buy tickets, but I bought tickets on my phone in Sweden with my smartphone in Sweden with only a valid email address. The app even had an English mode.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      81·
      2 days ago

      Sweden is so backwater in it’s tries to be forward thinking.

      You can’t even buy a bus ticket with a visa card (nor cash ofc ofc).