I remember over 15 years ago my wife and I were honeymooning in Europe (rom the US). While we had iOS devices that could use maps, the data services then were terrible, and GPS was effectively useless
We ended up taking screen shots of Google Maps where we zoomed in on local streets, on an ad hoc type atlas. I wish we had this app back then
Payments are much more complicated than just who your issuer is. As noted in other comments, connecting the customer directly to the aquirer can lose significant functionality. Pre authorization, installments, card on file and other typical services may be offered differently than expected, or not at all.
In addition, Mastercard and Visa still write the rules for industry. If at some point advanced Mastercard or Visa 3ds security significantly reduce fraud, and thus rates, consumers may start paying more for issuers that dont support similar technologies.
On top of all of this, point of interaction device support may lag. The latest features from Ignenico and such may take a while to implement, or again may not be supported at all for smaller financial companies.
All that being said, it’s great for consumers to have the choice, and hopefully we all benefit from increased competition.
> installments, card on file and other typical services
These are typically cherished by the issuers and not really wanted/needed by the customer. Card installments in particular are the bane of our society IMHO and straight loans replace them properly.
Many banks in EU already had loan systems integrated to deal with oversized purchases and extraordinary months, so getting it out of the network doesn't remove the service to the customer in most cases.
We're kinda seeing this playing out with alternative payment systems in Asia for instance: they provide way less options, yet get very popular.because people just don't miss the extra stuff.
There are situations where internet access is limited, or where there are frequent outages. An outdated LLM might be more useful than none at all.
For example: my internet is out due to a severe storm, what safety precautions do I need to take?
If you're using .Net Core version of csproj, it's the difference between e.g. <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.1</TargetFramework> and <TargetFrameworks>net47;netcoreapp2.0</TargetFrameworks>.
I don't know if there's a good way to migrate the csprojs automatically (maybe https://github.com/hvanbakel/CsprojToVs2017?), but it shouldn't be that hard manually (by creating a new project), assuming you have just a few projects to migrate.
We ended up taking screen shots of Google Maps where we zoomed in on local streets, on an ad hoc type atlas. I wish we had this app back then