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Venmo Is Going All In On Mobile Payments (appleinsider.com)
Venmo, the PayPal-owned, peer-to-peer payments app, is ending web support for its service. When the changes are all rolled out, users will only be able to make payments and charge users via the iOS or Android app. TechCrunch reports: The message to users was quietly shared in the body of Venmo's monthly transaction history email. It reads as follows: "NOTICE: Venmo has decided to phase out some of the functionality on the Venmo.com website over the coming months. We are beginning to discontinue the ability to pay and charge someone on the Venmo.com website, and over time, you may see less functionality on the website -- this is just the start. We therefore have updated our user agreement to reflect that the use of Venmo on the Venmo.com website may be limited."
The decision represents a notable shift in product direction for Venmo. Though best known as a mobile payments app, the service has also been available online, similar to PayPal, for many years.
The decision represents a notable shift in product direction for Venmo. Though best known as a mobile payments app, the service has also been available online, similar to PayPal, for many years.
I say this as someone who does most of his texting via a desktop computer, but if something doesn't work with a real computer, then it's just toy tech. It's bad enough when social media sites go mobile only (more sad when it's just a web view for the app) and will only do push notifications vs email alerts. Something that's supposed to be universal should not be restricted to mobile devices.
Those were the two main reasons my company dropped our web site and went to only an iOS app. We wanted to confirm the location of our users and record a verbal confirmation of actions. It's terrible for privacy, but has saved us several times when someone claimed they didn't do something and we could play the recording and show their location to their boss. It's hard to deny, for example, placing an order after we recorded the employee's location at their house.
Venmo sounds like a combination of "Venom" and "Vomit." The latter is the reaction to their latest move: I'll sooner just give you cash or write a check.
I’m in favor of anything that prevents even a fraction of the population from using that insecure service.
#DeleteChrome
IP address is enough to determine that a US customer's account isn't suddenly being (say) used in Nigeria.
Isn't Venmo/Venom/Vomit the company that also makes users' transactions public as part of some sort of "social network"?
What if the scammer is running a VPN?
This is just as bad as making an Internet Explorer only app. Don’t have the latest phone or on a phone the devs don’t support like Windows phone? Then you lose your money. We still need open source money (and real open source, not “crypto”currency).
Scammer could as well be using an Android emulator and a VPN :D
Say, using one to appear being in the US when using a stolen account.
Obvious what is happening here, Venmo can violate your privacy and operate malware on your device more efficiently with an app than a browser interface, because browsers are starting to get pretty secure. Whereas even without exploits (of which there are no shortage) Venmo can easily trick or coerce user victims into clicking those privacy invasion/spyware authorization buttons.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
"The decision represents a notable shift in product direction for Venmo." ..and will mark a notable shift in my use of the service (the aren't a product). Any service that requires permissions on a mobile device with an "app" that's processes aren't completely transparent, and requires my granting access to resources that are unnecessary for services gets deleted and replaced by someone who wants and welcomes my business. All others can blow me.
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There is absolutely no reason for something like Venmo to be a native mobile app. They should be moving toward a Progressive Web App, so this is a step in the absolute opposite direction. So ridiculous. I've still yet to use Venmo or meet anyone else who does. I guess it's because I'm not a millennial. Actions like this are certainly not motivating me to try it out, either.
I guess I'll be sticking with Google Pay Send (in spite of it's new, terrible name).
PayPal is owned by eBay.
In what sense? Last I checked, PayPal went from being an eBay subsidiary to a second IPO as PYPL on Nasdaq back in July 2015 (source). Does eBay retain a controlling interest in PYPL, with the remainder publicly traded or something?
Those were the two main reasons my company dropped our web site and went to only an iOS app.
That's a possibility, but then you have to make your application compelling enough that prospective users are willing to spend $299 for an iPad mini on which to run your application in addition to what your company charges for a license to use your application.
There is absolutely no reason for something like Venmo to be a native mobile app. They should be moving toward a Progressive Web App
That largely depends on whether Apple has recently closed the gaps in Apple WebKit's support for Progressive Web App APIs.
Google Maps won't work on safari on my phone... have to use the app. No thanks.
you could just have required those same things to be enabled if using the website you know.
also your system still seems to be a bit open for deliberate attack, except in such case you would still claim that you have proof it was the employee doing something.
I hope you don't actually trust anything coming from the cilent app.
also just throw it in a decompiler online if you haven't already and either go "neat" or "omg i'm shitting bricks". if its the "neat" part, then congraz you did your job.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.