The Google Pay app is dead
The Google Pay app is dead
Google Wallet takes over app duties, but it looks like Google is quitting P2P payments.
naming is essential
if you make and kill four separate apps all called variations around "google pay" there's a tiny chance people gets confused
A lot of people hear the app is dead and assume they no longer can tap to pay and just stop doing it altogether. My mom’s like that.
I'm confused just by this announcement. +1 to that.
Edit: I thought wallet was "pay".
Tell that to Microsoft as well
They just transitioned to Google Wallet, which lacks some features, notably peer-to-peer transactions. The API for virtual banking cards that most banking apps use instead of including their own NFC driver, also called "Google Pay", will keep working. At least that's how I understand it.
I mean, Venmo is a thing. Google Wallet /GPay is just so I don't have to take out my wallet to pay TBH.
Google often feels like a disorganized company with constantly shifting priorities, and a big reason behind that is the lack of top-down initiatives from the CEO. That means the real driving force behind most projects at Google are mid-level executives who show up with grand plans and then leave—either in disgrace or triumph—when those initial plans run their course.
Makes a lot of sense. There doesn't seem to be a unifying strategy behind anything google does. I also think theres a vicious circle going on here: google has a loyalty problem, which could be solved by long term thinking, usually done by loyal employees, but employees don't stick around long enough.
It isn't a problem with long term employees. The problem is that promotion at Google typically relies on developing new products. Long term employees aren't incentivized to improve existing products.
I think it was a mistake for Google to jump into AI last minute. I think they should of offered separate AI products and let growth happen naturally. Meanwhile Microsoft and OpenAI will shoot themselves in the foot.
Being a normal non AI focused company would of been a good look. They could simply have some basic AI tools that are actually useful.
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Whenever I tried to add Paypal to it, I just got an error.
Another one bites the dust?
I never use these apps, I just don't trust them at all. In a world of cyber security worries, we put all of our financial info on an app and a phone and expect everything to be safe. I'm just old school. Safety over convenience... as I am In an uber. Lol
Phone payments are magnitudes more secure than card payments as they basically are equivalent to using a brand new card and throwing it away for each transaction (in simplified terms)
That's what the chip on the card does too. It's an embedded computer that generates one time codes just like the phone.
The main difference is that the phone typically has an extra security measure, like requiring the screen to be on to pay (but you can get a mesh wallet which prevents tap from working); or the phone needs to be unlocked, which is actually useful.
You should look up info about phone payments and temp card numbers in order to reduce some of your fears. Also, check out what is actually stored in epay apps when there's a connection through a provider, like a bank integration or an integration to another epay partner.
PCI security is about as high as you'd expect from companies that tell consumers they won't lose their own money to fraud. When it's the bank's money, you'd better believe they care.
There are far easier ways to get someone's money and this ain't it.
