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Re: Google Shutting Down Wallet Card

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Post by Animats »

chipperyman573 wrote: post #88
Animats wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's been my experience too. Google discontinuation notices come up on YC regularly, and I've heard of maybe half the products. The other half I've heard bad things about. Except Google Code Search. I liked Google Code Search. But there's no useful way to hang ads on it. They could have used it for recruiting. People doing searches for code in difficult areas might be worth talking to. Google has tried that. At one…

I've never heard of google code search, but based on what it sounds like it is, http://symbolhound.com might be an alternative.

Google Code Search: 2006-2013.[1] It was from the era when Google claimed their mission was to organize all the world's information, and they had book-scanning and newspaper-scanning projects. But that content generated no ad revenue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search

Re: Google Shutting Down Wallet Card

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Post by dewiz »

noobiemcfoob wrote: post #47
grahamburger wrote: post #6

This is the first of Google's product cancellations that will affect me personally. My wife and I have been using Google Wallet cards for budgeting - we transfer our spending money to the cards each week to help track our spending. Honestly there's no reason Google Wallet was superior for this - I expect Simple will solve our problems better anyway. Should have seen this coming when they split it off of Android Pay.

+1 for Simple!

Is there something like Simple for non-US residents, living in US?

Re: Google Shutting Down Wallet Card

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Post by tjohns »

saiko-chriskun wrote: post #148
tjohns wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree about the service being bad. I've had nothing but positive experiences with Simple's support team. Also, they offer a JSON feed of my transactions, which isn't something any of my other banks provide.

How do you access these json feeds?

Login to account, push "Export", select "JSON".

It would be nice if they had OAuth support or a formally documented API, but it's still a good start.

Re: Google Shutting Down Wallet Card

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Post by homero »

grahamburger wrote: post #6

This is the first of Google's product cancellations that will affect me personally. My wife and I have been using Google Wallet cards for budgeting - we transfer our spending money to the cards each week to help track our spending. Honestly there's no reason Google Wallet was superior for this - I expect Simple will solve our problems better anyway. Should have seen this coming when they split it off of Android Pay.

Serve looks much better

Re: Google Shutting Down Wallet Card

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Post by microtonal »

dashoffset wrote: post #108

Google Reader thought me long ago not to depend or invest much time on Google services. Nowadays the only product that would cause me a huge problem if they decide to cancel it is Gmail.

Unlikely. Though I could see them disabling IMAP and/or SMTP for consumer GMail.

Re: Google Shutting Down Wallet Card

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Post by jve »

Animats wrote: post #151
chipperyman573 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never heard of google code search, but based on what it sounds like it is, http://symbolhound.com might be an alternative.

Google Code Search: 2006-2013.[1] It was from the era when Google claimed their mission was to organize all the world's information, and they had book-scanning and newspaper-scanning projects. But that content generated no ad revenue. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search

Why do you say: had? They still have: - https://www.google.com/googlebooks/library/ - https://support.google.com/books/partner/faq/3396243?hl=en&r...

Re: Google Shutting Down Wallet Card

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Post by rurban »

microtonal wrote: post #156
dashoffset wrote: post #108

Google Reader thought me long ago not to depend or invest much time on Google services. Nowadays the only product that would cause me a huge problem if they decide to cancel it is Gmail.

Unlikely. Though I could see them disabling IMAP and/or SMTP for consumer GMail.

Hardly. They'd rather cancel POP first.

A long-term IMAP storage is legally needed for the spooks to read your email in real-time. With POP they don't have the legal excuses, so they cannot read it. Only what's left over there.

Re: Google Shutting Down Wallet Card

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Post by urda »

trevorg75 wrote: post #128
sync wrote: post #97

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-1 for Simple. Not refunding ATM fees is ridiculous for a bank that has no physical ATMs. Also, things like this: "Your Simple Visa® Card will not function on August 6th from 2:00 - 9:00 am EST"

They have ATMs everywhere. And newsflash traditional banks cards do the same thing, they are just less transparent about it.

Haven't had to pay a ATM fee at my "traditional bank" in years.

Even when customers do not get refunds on fees, banks are usually very clear about it.

Re: Google Shutting Down Wallet Card

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Post by microtonal »

rurban wrote: post #158
microtonal wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unlikely. Though I could see them disabling IMAP and/or SMTP for consumer GMail.

Hardly. They'd rather cancel POP first. A long-term IMAP storage is legally needed for the spooks to read your email in real-time. With POP they don't have the legal excuses, so they cannot read it. Only what's left over there.

A long-term IMAP storage is legally needed for the spooks to read your email in real-time.

There is an API for that: https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/push#stopping...

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