Not exact matches
Mobile -
phone apps, Square, the new Starbucks digital - tipping service, and similar 21st - century doohickeys are beginning
to render our wallets
superfluous, and the digital age is establishing new standards for how much gratuities for eating out should be.
I added a PIN
to my Venmo
app — locking it with my fingerprint on my iPhone — but that seems
superfluous because you need my PIN
to get access
to the
phone's contents in the first place.
In the worst case scenario (and one which unfortunately occurs far too often for comfort), this results in a tonne of bloatware (or
superfluous or unnecessary
apps) ending up on the device, but in other cases, it gives users access
to features that would otherwise have not been available under stock Android — be it the switching off the display when you place the
phone in your pocket or different shooting options in the camera
app (our pet peeve with stock Android).
We're pleased
to see that Asus has scaled back its ZenUI Android skin and stuck with Google
apps for all the main
phone services, dispensing with
superfluous doubles.
The Asus ZenFone Zoom comes with over 30
apps pre-installed, many of which are
superfluous to the core experience of using the
phone.