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[–] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 200 points 9 months ago (20 children)

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 123 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The past year, for multiple times i wanted an app, i couldn't find it on Google Play. The search is utter crap. I had to bing stuff with "google play" as a keyword to find what I was looking for. Ridiculous. In the original Play Store search they give three results that obviously have my search words substituted for more common ones, e.g. "music" instead of "sound", and give you a few most popular for that, which is of course bullshit, because of course music apps are more popular than sound apps, BUT I DON'T WANT ANOTHER GODDAM MUSIC PLAYER. Then they show some useless random shit in a carousel, like FUCKING GAMES LIKE HEARTHSTONE AND MINECEAFT, WHICH IS THE LAST THING I NEED NOW ... finally there is a "show more" button that triggers the actual search FOR THE SILLY SUBSTITUTED WORDS I DIDN'T ENTER, BUT THIS TIME WITH FUZZYNESS ON MAX SO IT DOESN'T EVEN MATCH THOSE ALL THE TIME.

I'm not a fan of MS, but: bing Play Store when?

[–] cestvrai@lemm.ee 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Search used to be so useful 😑

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)
[–] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

At least YouTube is recommending videos by color now

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[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 33 points 9 months ago (10 children)

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

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 155 points 9 months ago (9 children)

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 9 months ago (3 children)

Next: Google Android Wallet Pay

[–] cloudless@feddit.uk 43 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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 9 months ago

... And now it's dead too.

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[–] 01011@monero.town 98 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Random as hell.

What is with google and all these apps that get killed or rebranded very abruptly?

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 64 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So I’ve heard advancement at Google/Alphabet depends on launching new products, not improving existing ones. Which means a lot of continually reinventing the wheel, because crafting truly novel new platforms is actually quite hard.

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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Money, it is all about money.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago

It’s about lack of coherent leadership.

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[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 69 points 9 months ago (21 children)

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 85 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago (4 children)

How long until they change 8.8.8.8 and break half the internet

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 29 points 9 months ago (6 children)

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

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[–] nevernevermore@kbin.social 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can we just sunset google altogether

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[–] sugartits@lemmy.world 42 points 9 months ago (7 children)
[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 9 months ago

NGL you had me for a moment

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[–] nnjethro@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Isn't google wallet basically the same thing?

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[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 54 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Introducing: Google Pay Meet

[–] RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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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[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 50 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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!

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[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 43 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Next week, they'll announce "Google Money"

[–] hansl@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago (5 children)

“YouTube Money”. Get it right.

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 42 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does this company have some kind of multiple personality disorder

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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Another one bites the dust

And another one gone, and another one gone

Another one bites the dust

Hey, I'm gonna get you too

Another one bites the dust

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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 9 months ago

With Google it's usually just rm name

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[–] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 34 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] Alto@kbin.social 59 points 9 months ago (5 children)

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 28 points 9 months ago

a manager needed their promotion

[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 17 points 9 months 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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[–] Bangs42@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

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 31 points 9 months 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.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Kind of glad I never bothered to figure it out

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[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

Just Google things. (tm)

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Didn't they already force everyone onto wallet?

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

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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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