The Google Wallet/Google Pay saga has come full circle
  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    691·
    9 months ago

    Classic google. There really is no point in trying out any of their products because they will be gone in a few years regardless of how good they are.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    592·
    9 months ago

    Standard Google. Make 2 competing products. See which one is successful. Force all of the other users to successful one even if there are less features. 5 years later kill off that one for another meaningless changeover.

    They stopped innovating in the late 2000s. It’s all been pointless marketing rebrands since.

    • FlumPHP@programming.devEnglish
      34·
      9 months ago

      To make matters worse, they keep reusing the same names for things. I honestly don’t know if I use Google Pay or Google Wallet? I just push the credit card icon on my phone.

      • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

        Doesn’t the huge diversity of blue, red, green, yellow logos make it obvious which app is which?

    • Arelin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      145·
      9 months ago

      They stopped innovating in the late 2000s. It’s all been pointless marketing rebrands since.

      Capitalism in a nutshell. Once a monopoly has been established, all that’s left is to keep others down through bs IP laws, patents and decrease wages.

      • giloronfoo@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        There was a payment app (maybe wallet?). Then they killed it and forced everyone to Pay. It was terrible, and everyone hated it. They gave up on that and brought back Wallet. They are now ending Pay. This is a good thing.

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    361·
    9 months ago

    Whatever that app was. 🤷 Google does so much country-specific and A/B stuff, it’s impossible to even know what their ecosystem is.