Comment by JimDabell
12 days ago
Other companies do similarly ridiculous things. I’ve personally had to push back on this in non-McDonalds companies, and I see others out there with the same kinds of problems. For instance, Starbucks has a different app for different countries, and they region-lock them. So if you have an Apple ID registered in one country and you visit another, you can’t use install that country’s Starbucks app to order. Which is super unhelpful when there’s a language barrier because you are in a different country.
I've had the websites of two American store chains (Napa and Publix) block me while standing inside their stores because my prepaid eSIM from airhub.com geolocates to Israel. I'd really like to know what's in the heads of people who come up with this sort of crap.
> I'd really like to know what's in the heads of people who come up with this sort of crap.
They probably think that geolocation always perfectly works based on the physical location and don't consider edge cases like people with roaming SIMs (which is what I think a lot of those cheap data-only eSIMs effectively are) geolocating to their home country even when abroad.
Though by now you'd think that people are aware the e.g. the Google/Apple app store region locking basically locks out all tourists, but it seems that even that isn't necessarily common knowledge…