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The most Google thing to do would now be to deprecate Android pay, no longer support merchants who don't upgrade their point of sale systems, and provide no con

The most Google thing to do would now be to deprecate Android pay, no longer support merchants who don't upgrade their point of sale systems, and provide no contact line for support.

cmurf 9y ago
And thus ensure in another 2 years, another person will be promoted to the Google global payments VP, and another product manager will think he's god's gift to solving the payments problem, and will have another product and rebranding cycle. Mark your calendars.
usaphp 9y ago
Happened to my android google tv from Sony, completely made it unusable , even YouTube app is not working. When Logitech did something similar everybody gone crazy about it. Google seems to be getting away with this kind of behavior every time
- andymcsherry 9y ago
  I had this TV and just bought a new one for Christmas. To be fair, the TV was released in mid-2010, the YouTube app was supported for over 7 years. Many other apps on the TV still worked when I got rid of it a month ago. There's a lot of valid complaints about smart TV software not being updated, but I think this is a stretch.
  - thinkingemote 9y ago
    It wouldn't be much of a stretch to follow that line of reasoning and propose that people should never buy smart products ever again. They should instead rent them. maybe that's what Google wants also.
  - aembleton 9y ago
    7 years isn't that old for a TV. I'm happy that I've bought a dumb TV, and then have a chromecast which is a small and cheap device that I can easily upgrade.
    - andymcsherry 9y ago
      Looks like the average is about 5 years. It still fell back to being a dumb TV just fine, I had a chromecast and an Apple TV hooked up. http://www.tvnewscheck.com/playout/2014/07/npd-displaysearch-study-underscores-urgency-of-next-gen-tv-standards-work/ http://www.tvnewscheck.com/playout/2014/07/npd-displaysearch...

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The most Google thing to do would now be to deprecate Android pay, no longer support merchants who don't upgrade their point of sale systems, and provide no con

by trendia 9y ago

The most Google thing to do would now be to deprecate Android pay, no longer support merchants who don't upgrade their point of sale systems, and provide no contact line for support.

cmurf 9y ago
And thus ensure in another 2 years, another person will be promoted to the Google global payments VP, and another product manager will think he's god's gift to solving the payments problem, and will have another product and rebranding cycle. Mark your calendars.
usaphp 9y ago
Happened to my android google tv from Sony, completely made it unusable , even YouTube app is not working. When Logitech did something similar everybody gone crazy about it. Google seems to be getting away with this kind of behavior every time
- andymcsherry 9y ago
  I had this TV and just bought a new one for Christmas. To be fair, the TV was released in mid-2010, the YouTube app was supported for over 7 years. Many other apps on the TV still worked when I got rid of it a month ago. There's a lot of valid complaints about smart TV software not being updated, but I think this is a stretch.
  - thinkingemote 9y ago
    It wouldn't be much of a stretch to follow that line of reasoning and propose that people should never buy smart products ever again. They should instead rent them. maybe that's what Google wants also.
  - aembleton 9y ago
    7 years isn't that old for a TV. I'm happy that I've bought a dumb TV, and then have a chromecast which is a small and cheap device that I can easily upgrade.
    - andymcsherry 9y ago
      Looks like the average is about 5 years. It still fell back to being a dumb TV just fine, I had a chromecast and an Apple TV hooked up. http://www.tvnewscheck.com/playout/2014/07/npd-displaysearch-study-underscores-urgency-of-next-gen-tv-standards-work/ http://www.tvnewscheck.com/playout/2014/07/npd-displaysearch...