41 points

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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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

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Random as hell.

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

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15 points

Money, it is all about money.

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39 points

It’s about lack of coherent leadership.

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2 points

I think most people hated this app though?

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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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This is the answer. Rising stars get promo, then abandon it. Google under Sundar is just a corporate advancement simulator.

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8 points

I was irked about Google podcasts but that made sense since they were obviously trying to push YouTube subscriptions. This I’m not sure.

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7 points

Now they will have youtube pay

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8 points

Or just You Pay

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10 points

Wallet still exists that functions as NFC payment at least.

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But now it’s been renamed YouTube Pay, and requires Premium subscription. ^/s

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

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

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28 points

a manager needed their promotion

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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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Google drank so much capitalist koolaid they thought the company needed internal competition when the main reason they remain so big is because they have big chunks of monopoly power in several key tech fields

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Not the same, you can’t pay friends directly with wallet. The core function that I use weekly is being gutted with no replacement.

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1 point

Just use zelle it’s built into your bank app

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9 points

Yeah I saw this news today and literally don’t even understand how it affects me. I don’t know what the difference is between Wallet and Pay.

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6 points

You can pay friends with Pay. You can’t do that with Wallet.

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1 point

Was Google Pay US-exclusive?

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It was a little weird having both pay and wallet existing.

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Not really. See Apple Pay and the Wallet app on iOS. Google just doesn’t know what the fuck they are doing from one day to the next. As someone pointed out, this ruins existing branding at physical stores and tap to pay consoles. All they had to do was realign the use of each term the way that Apple, Samsung, and other vendors do.

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Google just doesn’t know what the fuck they are doing

Can you send this to Google:

“See Apple Pay and the Wallet app on iOS.”

I really don’t understand how they can see another company doing things right and still be this lackluster. Copying the good things their competition does it a good thing sometimes.

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Bad comparison. There is no such thing as the ‘Apple Pay app’. Everything is done through the Wallet app, Apple Pay uses the wallet app.

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I thought the wallet was google pay.

So is GPay something else?

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Google Pay was rebranded to Google Wallet. GPay is Google’s Venmo equivalent and a separate service.

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