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).
yeah. google just isn’t a company you can rely on.
Even their search is going to shit (and with that google ads)
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Search used to be so useful 😑
It’s even affected YouTube.
At least YouTube is recommending videos by color now
But finding the two uploaders I watch daily is a chore.
Youtube has been a bitch and a half for a while now. It keeps showing me the same suggested videos over and over and over, most of them irrelevant to the search!
Every time I want to search by date I have to open invidious because YouTube search by upload date only sorts like the last week and then past that it’s back to just relevance
Apple doesn’t invent new products; they take good ideas that others did poorly and do them well.
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).
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.
“one of the first to take mobile audio quality seriously”
Is this referring to iPods? If so, then I agree. Hell, the first gen iPods are super sought after because they can use FLAC audio files. Although Apple has their own “lostless” audio codec now, so idk if it’s that big of a deal.
AirPods? Sure it’s impressive the noice canceling features in such a small package, but Bluetooth audio was nothing new and now they’re required because Apple removed the headphone jack.
I loved my 2017 LG ThinQ because it not only had a headphone jack, but it had a built in audio DAC to provide extra power to my Sennheiser studio headphones and it sounded soooo good.
I was referring to their laptop speakers, which are some of the best in class speakers around. But Apple has put a heavy emphasis on audio for a while. Their DACs are pretty good for what they are. The HomePods and AirPods aren’t bad either. They aren’t audiophile-level, but they are pretty good. I do wish they had better BT support, and had AptX on MacOS though.
All examples you mention are just refinements of what others did, proving the point. Except the Vision Pro which is just factually a bad product and rightly getting lambasted by everyone for it. But eh, even Apple has their misses.
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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Their business is advertising and Android is how they track an insane number of users. Like Chrome, they’ll never kill it, it’s far too valuable to them.
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Individual phones sure, but much like windows vs Mac . There’s way more android devices sold/out there.
The downside is relying on those non Google manufacturers to update those devices.
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I wonder how much of that is because Apple doesn’t compete in the sub-$400 market. I was surprised that my parents had a $100 Motorola Android that provided updates for something like 4 years, but yeah, some of the manufacturer’s just give up on even supporting their flagship devices (I see you, LG G4).
That’s a huge part of it. But it’s like the PC thing all over where anyone can license and produce any kind of android device.
No, the G Pay logo and branding is entirely separate. It is and has always been the indication that you can pay with the Wallet app. Which sucks as far as naming goes, but at least it has been quite consistent.
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Over here. I had no idea that in other countries they did all kinds of fuckery with their branding.
Apple isn’t necessarily doing anything specifically innovative
I don’t think they have really innovated for quite some time. But that said, they do know their market. They’ve got tons of people in the ecosystem and simply have to maintain them. It’s a lot easier than courting new users.
Apple has never done anything innovative. They just take things other companies have done and sell it to people better. They have a fantastic marketing team, but they generally don’t do new ideas.
FFS I literally use this all the fuckin time
God fuckin damnit Google
What’s next, are you going to kill Gmail‽
Did you not hear?
NGL you had me for a moment
This would give me a straight up heart attack and I’m already trying to get off Gmail.
Don’t be a dumbass spreading blatant hoaxes thinking you’re funny.
Come on, it is funny.
Where is the joke?
You’re still using gmail
Isn’t google wallet basically the same thing?
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.
Why don’t they upgrade the original product rather than create a new one? Answer: fucking laziness
Ironically enough, they actually are going back to the old product, it WAS Google wallet prior to gpay
But isn’t wallet only for tap to pay? I use Google pay to send and receive money between my friends and family literally all the time. Reading the email Google sent me, they only talk about tap to pay still working on wallet.
Idk I’ve never used it for anything other than tap to pay, and that was also true for gpay. I personally would recommend you use something that doesn’t farm your data for transferring money anyway. Zelle is what most people prefer these days, usually goes straight through your bank, no separate app, not invasive, more secure.
Venmo and cash app are trash (especially Venmo) but they are alternatives that work for sending money and have been around way longer than GPay. I still use Venmo for a few things for my parents and father in law.
GPay had tons of bloat to it which I didn’t like. I don’t want Google tracking my spending and tailoring “offers” for me, and I definitely don’t want them sending me notifications about it. I’m not delusional, I know they’re still tracking it and still sending it to advertisers but at least wallet isn’t shoving my face in it.
I have 8 bucks in Google Kajigger, is it moving to the new thing? Do I have to sort out how to move it around? I’m think I had it all hooked up to a bank at one point. Maybe it was a friend that sent me money?
I think I used it to pay for Dunkin Donuts, but both apps list Dunkin Donuts, can I just use the money there?
That’s why this is all so annoying, I have to figure out this whole process, old and new, just for 8 bucks.
That’s all well and good and fair, but this isn’t new news is more my point. Google told everyone, every device, that they were switching to wallet and phasing out GPay over a year ago, in fact I’m almost positive it was when Android 13 released (we are on 14 now). Like the annoyance should’ve passed by now, you know?
Samsung Pay is pretty good if you have a Samsung phone.
Unfortunately I don’t have a Samsung phone
Fortunately, I don’t have a Samsung phone.
Relax dippy. Just a rebrand to Google Wallet. Try to breath for a minute before sounding brain dead.
Literally the only feature I use on it is getting sunset.
Use your bank. Stop giving the world’s largest advertising company more data about you.
Yes, give your data to the bank where they will spend it on drugs.
Does your bank use Plaid?
Aww how cute, thinking Google doesn’t buy that data from the bank anyway…
Out of curiosity, what’s the benefit of Google Pay for you over Venmo or Zelle?
At the time I started using Google Pay, existing and being from a company I had heard of. Not to mention on Android it was just there for you to use, you didn’t have to download another app.
My roommate and I considered using PayPal but his PayPal account got locked and to this day a decade later, never unlocked.
I’m going to be looking into both Venmo and Zelle now though.
what’s the benefit of Google Pay for you over Venmo or Zelle?
It works internationally.
Those other 2 are USA only
Those other two are so frequently used for scams that my bank has a heart attack every time I try to use them. No matter how many times I call them and tell them to unblock my card, because it was definitely me sending that money, they’ll block it the very next time. I literally bought a checkbook (you have to buy those dumb things now?!) so I could more easily give people money… In 2023…
Google pay worked for me reasonably well for small transactions between friends and family. That’s literally what I use it for 90% of the time. I’m super annoyed that they don’t have a replacement for it.
Google strikes again, killing something I love.
Introducing: Google Pay Meet
This name is reserved for their upcoming hooker service
That’s a little clickbaitey they’re just moving the rest of pay into wallet.
Thank you.
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!
That’s really clever, you finally got me to dislodge this turd. Thank you!
That is an important part of the plot in the german book Qualityland. Really hilarious
Next week, they’ll announce “Google Money”
“YouTube Money”. Get it right.
Google Play Pay
Google Bank
Google River (both banks)
Google Marketing Dept: You’re hired!!!
This is actually very witty…
Thanks, I spent about an hour thinking of a good enough joke for this.
Google Wallet came out a while ago apparently, they are just condescending Google Pay into Google Wallet. Not sure what the differences are.
I would love a Google purse 👛
Does this company have some kind of multiple personality disorder
Some of its personalities do while others don’t. It’s… complicated.
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
Play it backwards and it says: “Start to smoke Marijuana”
Coincidence?
Ed: for the disbelievers https://youtu.be/TvhCThWWy3Q
And it’s clearly intentional - he pronounces ‘another one’ with an M to make it work
Every company renaming their products:
mv -i oldname newname
Google renaming their products:cp oldname newname ; sleep 5 ; rm -f oldnameWith Google it’s usually just
rm nameOr “mv name dev/null”
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?
You have money on Google? Where I am it just a payment service linked to your card.
I think at some point someone paid me and I just never cashed it out. I think it was the default payment method for Google Play, so app subscriptions and whatnot just got charged against it until there was almost nothing left.
Instead of Alphabet, they should’ve called the company Undertakers, because they’ve got a lot of experience dealing with dead apps and services.
Kind of glad I never bothered to figure it out
Same.
I never really trusted it to continue existing.
Especially not with Google. They have a habit of killing things.
Just Google things. ™
Didn’t they already force everyone onto wallet?
At least I had to already stop using Pay like 6 months 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.
I’m in the US and was forced off a good while back.
I’m in the US as well, and I had a gesture shortcut for Google Pay on my phone. For a while, whenever I opened it the app would strongly suggest I switch over to Google Wallet. I thought Pay was phased out a while ago as well, TIL.
Wallet still exists that functions as NFC payment at least.
But now it’s been renamed YouTube Pay, and requires Premium subscription. ^/s
