Re:Google shuts down GPay app and P2P payments in the US
by jeffwask on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @01:24PM
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Honestly, I made the mistake of looking to standardize on Google when I bought a Pixel. I got the watch some Google Home devices and they have in the following years terminated the Fit API, terminated gPay, reduce the integration to Home at this point I have no trust in Google to even maintain the basic services they offered the year prior.
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Re:Google shuts down GPay app and P2P payments in the US
by jeffwask on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @01:16PM
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This made me recall another great Googlism. My Google Home device can stream music and what is that default player when I say OK, Google play...
It's Spotify. I'm a YouTube Subscriber, you know another Google product which is a Spotify competitor. Ok Google play AC/DC on YouTube Music. Nope, it's commercials in Spotify.
Can you imagine a world where Apple sold the music rights on the iPad to Spotify?
It's so ludicrously short sighted and against the whole principle of an integrated Google ecosystem. They sabotage long term gains for short term profit and wonder why they keep failing. Well, maybe because you compete against yourselves.