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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 JxLS-cpgbe0 »

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.

A Googler already said "Plex (bank accounts)" in the comments here, I think that's going to be its unofficial name. Google Pay doesn't show up if you search for "Plex" on the Play Store!

> Plex Account

I already have a Plex Account. What is my Plex Account's app name? Plex or Google Pay?

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

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Post by nashashmi »

It’s supposed to be a social network made around money relationships. It’s like google plus all over again. Except this time with the promotion of businesses.

as someone who uses google for personal people to people communication and platform, Seeing my favorite free service provider take this route to what is unarguably a data collection scheme is deeply disheartening.

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

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Post by maximilianroos »

haxney wrote: post #58
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.

(Googler here, opinions are my own) People do rage internally about this. Unsurprisingly, a lot of current Google employees were early adopters of new Google features.

What's the case for not allowing these accounts? What do people reply internally?

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Post by moneywoes »

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…

Nailed it. Why would I use this over cashapp or venmo?

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Post by seneca »

No way in hell I would let Google anywhere near my financial information, regardless of some empty promise while they're trying to get a new app off the ground.

I can't think of another brand that has managed to lose as much trust and goodwill as Google. I've gone from excited about everything they announce to working to actively remove them from my life, and encouraging others to do the same.

Die a hero or live long enough to become the villain, I suppose.

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

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Post by summerlight »

maximilianroos wrote: post #63
haxney wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(Googler here, opinions are my own) People do rage internally about this. Unsurprisingly, a lot of current Google employees were early adopters of new Google features.

What's the case for not allowing these accounts? What do people reply internally?

Don't know, but probably there's some arbitrary legal complications associated to personal accounts so their lawyers simply decided to put those accounts into the "enterprise" category to avoid all the messes and now we're seeing collateral damages from this short-sighted decision.

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

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Post by ditonal »

thanhhaimai wrote: post #59
maxwell wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You still trust Google?

I'm just providing facts, with source. The above post contains no opinion. I'm not sure why you assume anything about my trust with Google?

It may be a fact that the Google spokeperson said that, but parroting it without any context does seem to imply you have trust in Google. I don’t think that’s an unfair take on what you posted. Google has eroded a ton of trust over the years so to emphasize (with your italics) a public statement does seem to brush over the lack of credibility of the source you’re repeating.
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