The Google Pay app is shutting down in the US

https://www.androidpolice.com/google-pay-shutting-down-b

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10370094

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Fizz@lemmy.nz · 58 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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.

Teon@kbin.social · 12 pts · 2y

They are twins with Microsoft. New product, massive hype, dead in 3 years.

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 47 pts · 2y (6 replies)

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.

flumph@programming.dev · 29 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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.

rem26_art@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y

I didn't even realize Pay and Wallet were two different things lmao. Apparently, I use Wallet

Wanderer@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y

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

Arelin@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 2y

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.

Pantherina@feddit.de · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

What competing product? Wallet?

korny@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

According to the article posted, yes.

Carighan@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 2y

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

sixty@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Misleading title. It's basically a name change

helenslunch@feddit.nl · 11 pts · 2y
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GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
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