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Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

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Re: Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

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Post by londons_explore »

donor20 wrote: post #82

If you are on an iphone 12 the difference between native apps (liquid smooth so far in my experience - basically perfect) and flutter apps is striking! Get ready for JANK on iOS. Or maybe just me. Flutter looks cool, but they really should make iOS a first class target platform at some point.

This could be solved simply... When the UX designers make a mockup of an app, instead of making mock screenshots, make mock videos.

Then tell the software engineer to match those mocks.

If some animation drops three frames at the start, then the code doesn't meet the mocks, and isn't ready to ship.

Re: Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

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Post by londons_explore »

judge2020 wrote: post #28

On a fairly unrelated note, the link shortener situation at Google is all over the place. When you refer people to Google Pay, the link is shortened to "g.co/payinvite/ ", google images sharing goes to "images.app.goo.gl", google search is "g.co/kgs", and Google Pay profile sharing is "gpay.app.goo.gl".

Don't worry - there's probably three different teams working on competing link shorteners...

Don't forget the internal ones that occasionally leak into external support articles... shortn/, go/, and goto.corp.google.com/... And maybe more I haven't seen...

Re: Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

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Post by lxgr »

judge2020 wrote: post #33

> When using a debit card, please carry out a signature-debit transaction. Do not enter a PIN when using a debit card if you want your transaction to be applied towards your offer completion. Can't using a chip card to receive rewards apparently.

Why not? A card having or lacking a chip is orthogonal to transactions being processed as debit or credit.

Re: Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

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Post by lxgr »

donor20 wrote: post #82

If you are on an iphone 12 the difference between native apps (liquid smooth so far in my experience - basically perfect) and flutter apps is striking! Get ready for JANK on iOS. Or maybe just me. Flutter looks cool, but they really should make iOS a first class target platform at some point.

Oh, so I wasn't imagining UI stuttering on my iPhone 11 with the new app.

I've never seen that in any other app for that matter... Is Google using Flutter in their other apps as well?

Re: Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

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Post by ashleshbiradar »

sorenjan wrote: post #42

I see that they've added integrated chat. If Google would've had a coherent chat app strategy they could've integrated it there, but I guess separate chats in every app is almost as good. There's no chance I'd use a service like this from Google by the way. I would probably had been interested if it had come from Google 15 years ago, but they have too much badwill since then, with all their cancelled services and sto…

check out the Indian version of Google Pay.

Re: Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

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Post by generalk »

fomine3 wrote: post #77
stochastician wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What the hell, I just tried this and it turns out to be true. Sometimes I think I should go work for google for a year just so I could rage internally about this sort of shit. I too have a GAFYD account I've been paying for since 2009.

Google also refuses to Add my G Suite Basic account into YouTube Premium family sharing. Annoying.

For a long time I wanted to give Google more money! I tried multiple times to get together a Google Music Family Plan, because I'd bought music and uploaded music and the radio feature was so good.

They refused to allow me to pay them more, and refused to allow me to transfer my purchases to another account I verifiably own so I could then pay them more.

I know legacy GAFYD accounts don't matter to Google, and I don't expect them to, but it'd be nice to be able to transfer my stuff out. I know we like to point out who Google's real customers are, but after a decade-and-a-half I've actually paid them real money for things, and shockingly would like to continue doing so.

Re: Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

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Post by ashleshbiradar »

achow wrote: post #88
sorenjan wrote: post #42

I see that they've added integrated chat. If Google would've had a coherent chat app strategy they could've integrated it there, but I guess separate chats in every app is almost as good. There's no chance I'd use a service like this from Google by the way. I would probably had been interested if it had come from Google 15 years ago, but they have too much badwill since then, with all their cancelled services and sto…

This should not be seen as chats, but transaction documentation. The dialogs associated with informal or semi-formal transactions may not belong in your personal chat space; quite often that set of dialogs exists only before and during the transactions and never after that. > ..but they have too much badwill since then.. Google pay is the market leader in India in fintech. It is perhaps most trusted brand. The notion…

a huge chunk of Indian internet users have got access to internet only in the last 5 years or so, and almost all of them are digitally illiterate. Internet basically means, Facebook, Whatsapp, Tiktok, and Google. I know abundance of users who made a gmail account, just to get started with their android phone and do not understand what email even is.

Re: Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

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Post by dbbk »

jklinger410 wrote: post #3

>That’s why we’re working with trusted financial institutions to create Plex, a new mobile-first bank account integrated into Google Pay. Plex is already a product.

Nothing close to a bank account. It's completely normal for products in different industries to have the same name.
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