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[-] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 204 points 1 year ago

And just like that, all G Pay branding on every store window, door, or register is deprecated. I think they forgot how to make products.

There's a reason Apple sold 7 of the most-sold phones in America last year. They all have the latest OS available, have security patches for years to come, and use the same first-party apps. I beginning to think that Apple isn't necessarily doing anything specifically innovative, they just aren't constantly fucking with their customers (though they do still fuck OVER their customers regularly).

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 126 points 1 year ago

yeah. google just isn't a company you can rely on.

Even their search is going to shit (and with that google ads)

[-] cestvrai@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

Search used to be so useful 😑

[-] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 year ago

Apple doesn’t invent new products; they take good ideas that others did poorly and do them well.

[-] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 21 points 1 year ago

I don't believe that. I don't think Apple innovates constantly, or that they are the most innovative, but they have their moments (Touch Bar, gigantic touchpad, one of the first laptop manufacturers to have insane display resolution, one of the first to take mobile audio quality seriously, Apple silicon, Vision Pro - which is NOT the same as Google Glass or HoloLens, AirPods).

[-] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

That’s how they beat competition: by innovating in small-ways.

They didn’t make the first Laptop, but they innovate in ways like high-quality display and trackpad, and having a touch-bar.

They don’t always do it well. Touch-bar and pressure-sensitive trackpad have been hit-or-miss features.

AirPods weren’t the first Bluetooth earphones, but Apple managed to make them wildly popular.

Vision Pro is … honestly I’m not sure where they’re going with it. I think the most similar competing product is the Facebook/Meta/Oculus “Quest”, but that focuses on running games while the Apple Vision emphasizes anything but games.

[-] s0ckpuppet@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

The pressure sensitive trackpad has been a home run, nobody has better trackpads. Period.

But yeah the touchbar was pretty meh and poorly supported and ended up being half baked in the long run.

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[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Any Google tap and pay will still work under the Google Wallet umbrella. All they will do is add "Wallet" logos to future signage.

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[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 149 points 1 year ago

First, there was google wallet, then came android pay, then google wallet and android pay got merged into google pay, then google pay was split into google wallet and google pay, then google pay shut down in us.

To be continued...

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

Next: Google Android Wallet Pay

[-] cloudless@feddit.uk 44 points 1 year ago

Google Wallet with Gemini.

Gemini will suggest where you should spend your money next, based on AI analysing your spending patterns.

By the way Gemini is going to automatically pay the optimum amount of tip based on Google partnership.

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[-] moody@lemmings.world 15 points 1 year ago

... And now it's dead too.

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[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

It's almost as if, and bear with me here this is a truly wild concept, letting every manager run their own little show and paying them based on how many new products they introduce isn't actually healthy.

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[-] Gormadt 69 points 1 year ago

FFS I literally use this all the fuckin time

God fuckin damnit Google

What's next, are you going to kill Gmail‽

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 83 points 1 year ago
[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

How long until they change 8.8.8.8 and break half the internet

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 29 points 1 year ago

I'm just waiting for them to figure out how to inject ads into DNS.

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[-] nevernevermore@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

Can we just sunset google altogether

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[-] sugartits@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago
[-] Gormadt 40 points 1 year ago

NGL you had me for a moment

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[-] nnjethro@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Isn't google wallet basically the same thing?

[-] Lemonparty@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Yes, and it works better. They said over a year ago that wallet would replace GPay, and remind you that it will stop working basically anytime you open it. I'm all for shitting on Google but being upset over this is dumb.

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[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

That's a little clickbaitey they're just moving the rest of pay into wallet.

[-] veeesix@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 year ago

Introducing: Google Pay Meet

[-] RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 13 points 1 year ago

Google-Wave your Google-Pay-Meet device over the Google-Reader and we’ll Google-Optimize your purchase so you can get back to Google-Hangouting with your friends faster than you can say “watch Google Play Movies & TV on Android Auto for phone screens”

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[-] ThatFembyWho 50 points 1 year ago

Introducing Google Pay-I.

Revolutionary AI learns from your habits and personality to make payments on your behalf! It will buy things you didn't even know you needed!

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would probably try an AI version of the XKCD packages script

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[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 year ago

Next week, they'll announce "Google Money"

[-] hansl@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

“YouTube Money”. Get it right.

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[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 year ago

Does this company have some kind of multiple personality disorder

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[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 34 points 1 year ago

Wait, Google Pay still exists? Wasn't it rebranded to Wallet?

[-] Alto@kbin.social 58 points 1 year ago

In true Google fashion, they remade the same product, gave it a new name, and made it compete with the existing one.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 year ago

a manager needed their promotion

[-] dmtalon@infosec.pub 16 points 1 year ago

Just FYI, it was wallet originally, moved to "pay" then both existed for way too long with not really knowing which did what

Now we're back to wallet.

🤦‍♂️

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[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 1 year ago

Every company renaming their products: mv -i oldname newname
Google renaming their products: cp oldname newname ; sleep 5 ; rm -f oldname

[-] emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

With Google it's usually just rm name

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[-] Bangs42@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The fun part is you still can't transfer out less than $1. I had 81¢. So I tried to transfer in 19¢ so I could transfer a whole $1 out.

Nope, can't transfer in less than $10.

I was able to transfer in $10 so I can get my $10.81 out. But fuck, Google, if you're the one shutting shit down, how about you let me transfer my money out regardless of how much/little there is?

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[-] Psiczar@aussie.zone 29 points 1 year ago

Instead of Alphabet, they should’ve called the company Undertakers, because they’ve got a lot of experience dealing with dead apps and services.

[-] hightrix@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Just Google things. (tm)

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Kind of glad I never bothered to figure it out

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[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Didn't they already force everyone onto wallet?

At least I had to already stop using Pay like 6 months ago

[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From the article:

Google Wallet, a pioneer in the NFC payments space...eventually got combined with Android Pay and rebranded to Google Pay, only to become Google Wallet again for most users, even though Google Pay stuck around in the US, India, and Singapore.

EDIT: And I assume you don't live in the US, India, or Singapore.

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