PayPal to stop doing Bill Pay! We Want Global Transfers!
My wife just told me that PayPal has announced that starting Aug 1st they are going to stop offering the bill pay service. How retarded!
Here's another area that I truely do not understand.
I just read an article in Information Weekly that talked about how the banking industry is going to be adding all these new features -- check the weather, check stock market, and all these other unrelated features!!
They will be able to add these features because they are replacing their ATM's with Windows OS instead of IBM OS/2 based devices that they have been using for years (hasn't anyone else ever noticed how much the old ATM's looked like "Green Screens"?)
But what are the talking about doing? Not adding banking features that the public could truely use and that they should be more than capable of adding!
I believe with online banking or at any ATM I should be able to transfer money from any account to any other account regardless of which bank the accounts are with.
I should be able to instantously do an Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) from any of my personal accounts to the account of any company I owe money to. Cable, Phone, Internet, Gas, Electric, Water, anything! From any ATM, Online, Phone, or any other device that we can STANDARDIZE on!
But alas, why is it that the banking industry and every other industry first tries to come up with these goofy features that nobody really needs? Instead of truely innovating in their own industry?
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About dwalker
David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.
His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.
After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.
Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.
He is the current President of the
Tulsa Developers .NET user group.. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.