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

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Post by tanseydavid »

pluto9 wrote: post #31
d1zzy wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When was the last such horror story you heard? (and I specifically mean shutting down access to Google Account and all services) Last time I heard this type of story was back in Google+ times when it was trying to enforce some silly real name policy.

Here are some, published just a couple weeks ago: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-users-locked-out-afte... Several of these stories have appeared on HN just over the past year or so as well. Edit: The amount of downvoting on this and my original comment is puzzling to me. If someone who takes issue with it would care to explain what the problem is, I'd sincerely like to hear about it.

Upvoted -- thank you for the link to recent incidents.

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

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Post by novaleaf »

SomewhatLikely wrote: post #46
urbandw311er wrote: post #29

Feel a bit sorry for the authors of Plex Media streaming software who woke up today to discover that their SEO is now ruined, and trademarks worthless.

You live by the short name, you die by the short name. Trademarks protect against consumer confusion. I'm not sure there would be much confusion here.

both are digital services both have accounts you can manage on your device

Yes different services, but there is significant chance of confusion. "login with your plex account".

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

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Post by ac29 »

personlurking wrote: post #50

There's going to be a lot of competition around CBDC/FedCoin wallet apps in 2021. With this update, Google Pay might be positioning themselves. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-brainard-idUSKBN1... https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/357...

Why 2021? The Fed moves pretty slowly.

The legislation you linked has not passed the House or Senate (it doesnt appear to even have been voted on).

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

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Post by greatgib »

thanhhaimai wrote: post #51
thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #5

Google already has too much info from email, location tracking, and search history. Getting into bank accounts is too much. It would let them know exactly how effective advertising is since they would see how money is spent and they already know what advertisements they show you. Sorry, but no. Hard pass from me.

Brynn Bardacke (Google Pay Senior Director) stated publicly that: 1) Google Pay will never sell your information. 2) Specifically, Google Pay will never sell your transaction history to third parties 3) Or share it with the rest of Google for targeting ads. Source: https://youtu.be/A2hL32k7Y0I?t=934

Fool me once, fool me twice, ...

Before trusting them with your financial data, just remember the long list of broken promises they did before!

for example: * Gmail that was supposed to be unlimited for free for ever until they reached dominance; * same with google photo unlimited storage; * Google music that suggested you upload all your musique; * Android that is more and more closed and limited years after years; * The Google cars secretly collecting wifi data * The "don't be evil" not annoyed to create a censured search engine for China * The geolocation data that was deceptively recorded and kept, and provided to the police for geofencing for the US * The company that closes and blocks accounts for futile reasons without any 'human' support if don't have social media fame.

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

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Post by remir »

londons_explore wrote: post #111
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.

In 2020, a simple app like this shouldn't be janky in the first place.

If software engineers, at Google no less, need a mock video to understand that the UI should be smooth, then there's a big problem.

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

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Post by donor20 »

lxgr wrote: post #115
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?

It weird, because Apple really has prioritized smooth animations (on iphone 12 at least it really feels VERY smooth). Why not at least match them - they've demonstrated I think reasonably that people value stuff like this.

The power of the chips in these little things is insane, I also don't understand how my old Windows 3.11 machine had less stutter than these new things.

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

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Post by haxney »

t-writescode wrote: post #75
pottertheotter wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm so intrigued by you having an account since 2011 and this is only your 5th comment.

They may have another account they use when not speaking as a googler

Nope, this is my only account (assuming you can trust anything I say). I signed up a while back when I was founding a startup company (because of course every founder needs to be on HN), but then stopped coming here after the startup disintegrated. I've started coming back after I got bored going to r/programming during long compiles.
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