The Google Pay app is shutting down in the US

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)
  
  Search used to be so useful 😑
- 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).
- 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.
  
  https://xkcd.com/1361/
- Any Google tap and pay will still work under the Google Wallet umbrella. All they will do is add "Wallet" logos to future signage.
- They really seem to have lost any semblance of vision
- 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.
  
  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).
  
  At the very least, manufacturers should be required to make their android build files available, even if they are kept in an escrow until the manufacturer stops selling that model (or they go out of business). Most of the phones going to the dump are because no updates are available, even though the hardware is still fine and any individual person (with a little patience) could build the latest release if they had the hardware bin files available.
- 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.
  ...
  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.

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...
- Next: Google Android Wallet Pay
  
  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.
  
  ... And now it's dead too.
  
  Will it come with its own proprietary chat?
- It's almost as if, and bear with me here this is a truly wild concept, letting every manager run their own little show and paying them based on how many new products they introduce isn't actually healthy.
- Are you sure that you're not thinking of Duo/meet/Hangout?
  
  Don't put hangout in the same breath as duo and meet. It was way better than those "two"
- More like: To be confused...
- This sounds like someone trying to describe the women’s legs of that video of OpenAI’s Sora … Tokyo Walk.
  https://youtu.be/tRSdt5kmeW0?si=dEtq3md0u3phJuv4
  
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Random as hell.
What is with google and all these apps that get killed or rebranded very abruptly?
- 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.
  
  This is the answer. Rising stars get promo, then abandon it. Google under Sundar is just a corporate advancement simulator.
- Money, it is all about money.
  
  It’s about lack of coherent leadership.
- I was irked about Google podcasts but that made sense since they were obviously trying to push YouTube subscriptions. This I'm not sure.
  
  Now they will have youtube pay
- I think most people hated this app though?

FFS I literally use this all the fuckin time
God fuckin damnit Google
What's next, are you going to kill Gmail‽
- How long until they change 8.8.8.8 and break half the internet
  
  Can we just sunset google altogether
- 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.
- 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.
- Samsung Pay is pretty good if you have a Samsung phone.
  
  Unfortunately 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.

Introducing: Google Pay Meet
- 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”
  
  watch Google Play Movies & TV on Android Auto
  Android Auto, not to be confused with Android Automotive
  "Overview of Android Automotive vs Android Auto Android Auto is connecting smartphones with the infotainment system via an app installed on the infotainment system, whereas Android Automotive OS is an operating system that's installed on the vehicle itself, acting as the key enabler for software-defined vehicles." source
- This name is reserved for their upcoming hooker service

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!
- I would probably try an AI version of the XKCD packages script
- 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

That's a little clickbaitey they're just moving the rest of pay into wallet.
- Thank you.
- And killing services like sending and receiving payments from friends and family. This is so frustrating, because I remember they made me switch FROM wallet to Google pay and now they're going back. Google, I'm all for not tying yourself to all your previous decisions, but at some point you've got to stand your ground on SOMETHING.

Next week, they'll announce "Google Money"
- “YouTube Money”. Get it right.
  
  Google Play Pay
- 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
Another one bites the dust
- 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 oldname
- With Google it's usually just rm name
- Or "mv name dev/null"

Wait, Google Pay still exists? Wasn't it rebranded to Wallet?
- In true Google fashion, they remade the same product, gave it a new name, and made it compete with the existing one.
  
  a manager needed their promotion
  
  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.
  🤦‍♂️
  
  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
  
  Not the same, you can't pay friends directly with wallet. The core function that I use weekly is being gutted with no replacement.
- 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.
  
  You can pay friends with Pay. You can't do that with Wallet.

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.
- Might wanna check your math there....
  
  Oof. Big dumb. Thanks!

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. (tm)

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 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.
  
  I'm in the US and was forced off a good while back.

Wallet still exists that functions as NFC payment at least.
- But now it's been renamed YouTube Pay, and requires Premium subscription. ^/s

It was a little weird having both pay and wallet existing.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
- I thought the wallet was google pay.
  So is GPay something else?
  
  Google Pay was rebranded to Google Wallet. GPay is Google’s Venmo equivalent and a separate service.