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If they could do that, they’d have an iMessage competitor by now. Last Android I used was the Pixel 3 and still couldn’t text from my laptop, something Apple has had for more than a decade.
Windows has Phone Link to do this with Android. It's only been around for ~6 years or so
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You forgot GPay! Which I think is a different app (I mean, it has a different name...) though I can't say I'm sure (Wikipedia says they're the same, but the source they use directly contradicts them). It's really comical at this point.
The previous Google Pay app was definitely killed off and you had to install "GPay" instead. I /think/ Google Pay may have been a rename of the original Android Pay app, but not sure.
Google's history with their payment apps/platform is almost as convoluted as their history with message apps/platforms. I swear they have gone back and forth on Android Pay/Google Wallet/Google Pay a half dozen times.
I had the misfortune of working on this garbage of a project. One of the most pathetic software projects with some of the worse people I have ever worked in my life. Google Pay India is very successful. Not because it is actually good but rather the fact that it does not face the pressure to be very profitable unlike its competitors like PayTM (which now is pretty much dead). It is a good product with basic feature t…
> Common questions about these changes Does not include a reason for this change or why is it a US only change.
So in the beginning there was Android Pay, which later became Google Pay in the US and Europe. For India, Google launched an app called Tez (and later renamed Google Pay) there which was more adapted for the India market, doing things like phone number identities and UPI integration. This worked so well in India, that they promoted the head of the India app to be in charge of payments everywhere, and so his plan was…
Then I've always been able to add cards and use tap to pay.
This might explain my confusion.
Google's history with their payment apps/platform is almost as convoluted as their history with message apps/platforms. I swear they have gone back and forth on Android Pay/Google Wallet/Google Pay a half dozen times.
I worked on Pixel for several years and used to excuse this stuff. Now, among other things, every time I need to open the app, I inevitably search for Google Pay instead of Wallet. Maybe I'll remember now that this happened. Android Pay -> Google Pay seemed fair, but IIRC, Google Pay -> Google Wallet was just a combo of shipping-the-org-chart and Apple me-too'ing. At the time, they were also leaking that there was go…
The first culprit that comes to mind is swipe to the camera on the lockscreen - useful, but not Apple enough, so they delete it. Then, Apple ships it, but Google already deleted it.
Strange that Apple can make Apple pay work so well but Google keeps botching it. If nothing else, just copy the product and build what Apple has built, but for Android.
If they could do that, they’d have an iMessage competitor by now. Last Android I used was the Pixel 3 and still couldn’t text from my laptop, something Apple has had for more than a decade.
(Tho obviously I need to replace the phone, since Google stopped released Android versions for it.)
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I had the misfortune of working on this garbage of a project. One of the most pathetic software projects with some of the worse people I have ever worked in my life. Google Pay India is very successful. Not because it is actually good but rather the fact that it does not face the pressure to be very profitable unlike its competitors like PayTM (which now is pretty much dead). It is a good product with basic feature t…
Looks like the typical offshoring development experience to me, thanks for sharing your history.
It was natural for OPs team to have pushback since they have no knowledge of what works in India even if the entire app was developed in the US by a different team. The fact that Google culture that makes it so easy to do said pushback was just icing on the cake.