Our Qwerty keyboards are ubiquitous. You may think there are no problems left with that design, until you are hit with carpel tunnel pains.
Before that, you would not even be aware of the problems and their myriad solutions: better layouts, better hardware designs (like split body or 3d sculpted), or even conceptually unique input devices.
Saying that there’s nothing left to solve signals your position among the conceptually impoverished. It is fine to not know, but it is not wise to proclaim that no one else does or will ever know.
Back to browsers. How could a solution ever arrive? Perhaps someone assumes there is a better way and try to build new things? Should we have instead stopped at letter writing or fax for the solved problem of communication?
I am just glad that there are people who are willing to take on risk to pursue a solution, for problems we are too stupid to care about.
> [...] than needing a separate app for the payment provider in question, having to open it to scan a QR code.
At least for WeChat/Alipay, the apps integrate with banks. You can also provide your own QR code for payment which gets scanned. The flow is then unlock your phone, show the QR code. There also isn't a step to fill payment details (unless you are comparing to some imaginary payment system).
> much worse UX
Presenting a QR code, opening a scanner, or bringing out the NFC payment UI are all single step operations. (unless you want to manually open the apple wallet app instead of using the double click function, for example.) I don't think you are being fair here. NFC payment has its own problems: you have to line up the devices, which means moving very close to the payment terminal. Often different terminals have different areas to line up. The scanning flow is superior as there is much greater margin of error in positioning and you can pay from a greater distance.
If you bring a bunch of cards instead of having a charged phone, that's a preference but not a UX improvement.
> SEPA is free and easy to use.
Yes, and you will have to have a phone, unlock, open a specific app, fill in payment details.
Our Qwerty keyboards are ubiquitous. You may think there are no problems left with that design, until you are hit with carpel tunnel pains.
Before that, you would not even be aware of the problems and their myriad solutions: better layouts, better hardware designs (like split body or 3d sculpted), or even conceptually unique input devices.
Saying that there’s nothing left to solve signals your position among the conceptually impoverished. It is fine to not know, but it is not wise to proclaim that no one else does or will ever know.
Back to browsers. How could a solution ever arrive? Perhaps someone assumes there is a better way and try to build new things? Should we have instead stopped at letter writing or fax for the solved problem of communication?
I am just glad that there are people who are willing to take on risk to pursue a solution, for problems we are too stupid to care about.