I don't believe many here use the European N26 bank, but their release notes for the latest version of their iPhone app is just...well... top notch.
3.7.1 is here, and we've beautified our app to support the iPhone X fully. That's kinda great because now we support FaceID, unleashing the full power of that bezel-less notch. To celebrate our seamless notch integration, we're giving you:
A quick history of notches.
Notches have had many uses throughout mankind's history. From recording your height on door frames as you age to nocks (or notches) on the end of arrows to hold them on the bow's string when drawn.
What might be the most ingenious notching, however, came in the form of tally sticks, which societies from the Paleolithic era, right up to Medieval times, used in place of currency. It was a pretty clever way of accounting—you didn't need to know how to read or scrounge up precious metal for coins. Henry I used them for taxes in medieval England. You'd carve notches onto both sides of a lovely hazlewood stick, break it in half and give the longer stick to the debtor. If you can believe it, this system continued until the 19th century, until slowly being phased out. Hooray! To celebrate the disposal of these odious symbols of century-old debt, they decided to chuck them into a coal-fired stove in the House of Lords and watch them burn baby, burn. But then a raging fire erupted and almost burnt down the entire Palace of Westminster. Old debts die hard, I guess.
3.7.1 is here, and we've beautified our app to support the iPhone X fully. That's kinda great because now we support FaceID, unleashing the full power of that bezel-less notch. To celebrate our seamless notch integration, we're giving you:
A quick history of notches.
Notches have had many uses throughout mankind's history. From recording your height on door frames as you age to nocks (or notches) on the end of arrows to hold them on the bow's string when drawn.
What might be the most ingenious notching, however, came in the form of tally sticks, which societies from the Paleolithic era, right up to Medieval times, used in place of currency. It was a pretty clever way of accounting—you didn't need to know how to read or scrounge up precious metal for coins. Henry I used them for taxes in medieval England. You'd carve notches onto both sides of a lovely hazlewood stick, break it in half and give the longer stick to the debtor. If you can believe it, this system continued until the 19th century, until slowly being phased out. Hooray! To celebrate the disposal of these odious symbols of century-old debt, they decided to chuck them into a coal-fired stove in the House of Lords and watch them burn baby, burn. But then a raging fire erupted and almost burnt down the entire Palace of Westminster. Old debts die hard, I guess.
