{"id":17829,"date":"2025-02-22T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T08:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/the-tyranny-of-apps-those-without-smartphones-are-unfairly-penalised-say-campaigners\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T08:37:16","slug":"the-tyranny-of-apps-those-without-smartphones-are-unfairly-penalised-say-campaigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/the-tyranny-of-apps-those-without-smartphones-are-unfairly-penalised-say-campaigners\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The tyranny of apps\u2019: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From loyalty cards, to restaurant meal deals or simply parking your car \u2013 it is harder and harder to get by without signing up to a multitude of apps<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/feb\/22\/how-to-navigate-apps-from-checking-safety-to-remembering-passwords\">How to navigate apps: from checking safety to recalling passwords<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2025\/feb\/22\/uk-wide-parking-app-out-of-road-government-funding-withdrawnn\">UK-wide parking app may be out of road after funding withdrawn<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Michael is in his late 50s and is among the millions of people in the UK who cannot or do not want to use mobile apps, and feels he is being penalised for his choice.<\/p>\n<p>He does own a smartphone \u2013 an Apple iPhone he bought secondhand about three years ago \u2013 but says: \u201cI don\u2019t use apps at all. I don\u2019t download them for security reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2025\/feb\/22\/the-tyranny-of-apps-those-without-smartphones-are-unfairly-penalised-say-campaigners\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3c64fd2afb2c4646a2a63a142bc7a35db7358be1\/0_313_7681_4609\/master\/7681.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=314021849679a1aba5156398155734bd\" title=\"\u2018The tyranny of apps\u2019: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners\" \/>From loyalty cards, to restaurant meal deals or simply parking your car \u2013 it is harder and harder to get by without signing up to a multitude of apps<\/p>\n<p>How to navigate apps: from checking safety to recalling passwords<br \/>\nUK-wide parking app may be out of road after funding withdrawn<\/p>\n<p>Michael is in his late 50s and is among the millions of people in the UK who cannot or do not want to use mobile apps, and feels he is being penalised for his choice.<br \/>\nHe does own a smartphone \u2013 an Apple iPhone he bought secondhand about three years ago \u2013 but says: \u201cI don\u2019t use apps at all. I don\u2019t download them for security reasons.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From loyalty cards, to restaurant meal deals or simply parking your car \u2013 it is harder and harder to get by without signing up to a multitude of apps How to navigate apps: from checking safety to recalling passwords UK-wide parking app may be out of road after funding withdrawn Michael is in his late &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/the-tyranny-of-apps-those-without-smartphones-are-unfairly-penalised-say-campaigners\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018The tyranny of apps\u2019: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17829"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}