That's programmer incompetence. Unfortunately pervasive, especially with devices like parking meters, EV chargers, and similar, where the feedback loop (angry customer) is long (angry customers resulting in revenue decrease) or non-existent.

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ttoinou 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It could be a management problem instead also, while developers are just following instructions sent by management

	▲	Nextgrid 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And nobody with options would settle for the low pay and terrible working conditions, so the quality of the output also reflects that.

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graemep 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They also prefer you to use the mobile app so they can gather more data so they do not want the devices to work well in the first place.