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Besides the privacy risks with full on moving your banking to Google, I think another big issue is when they decide this product isn't profitable any more, and/
by fmpwizard 7y ago
Besides the privacy risks with full on moving your banking to Google, I think another big issue is when they decide this product isn't profitable any more, and/or some other department in Google comes up with banking 2.0 and you end up having to move all your bill payments, auto draft, etc back out.
If we thought killing Google Reader was bad, killing your bank app would be even worse.
- stvswn 7y agoJFC you guys and the Google Reader thing -- it's been six years, get a new canned response to every Google story.
- akhilcacharya 7y agoI really liked Inbox...
- scarmig 7y agoOne hundred years from now, while Google surveils us 24/7, psychologically brainwashes us from birth, and sends the occasional Google drone to terminate users who violate ToS, you'll still have people on Hacker News bitching about Reader.
- carty76ers 7y agoIt wasn’t just Reader... have you paid attention to the other stories?
- SupersonicScrub 7y agoHere's the full list. The sheer size of it blows my mind whenever I look at it. https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/
- fmpwizard 7y agoI didn't want to include the much longer list, if we look to more recent events, Google Play Music is in the process of being replaced by Youtube Music, but with way fewer features. I was also a Google Wallet user, and they killed it, Google Notebook, I'm sure I can keep going if I try to remember for a few more minutes.
- TillE 7y agoI still can't get over how they killed Wave while it was still extremely in beta. It didn't hurt users in the same way, but I think it clearly demonstrates their terrible decision making. Google could've easily occupied the space where Slack, WhatsApp, etc currently exist. They had the technology, they had the team with a vision for a new standard of internet messaging. Instead they just pulled the plug within months.
- awad 7y agoI was a big fan of Wave but all other history suggests to me that Slack would still have wiped the floor with them due to factors outside of the immediate product teams' purview.
- xerox13ster 7y agoAllo, Duo, Hangouts, Picasa, Plus, iGoog, Currents, Orkut, Video, Talk, Inbox, Glass, Listen, etc
- sct202 7y agoIt sounds like Citi bank is providing most of the actual services so they'd probably roll the account fully on to them in that event.
- carty76ers 7y agoSo Google is the middle man? I’d rather just go straight to Citi directly, and get customer support on the phone or in-person
- sct202 7y agoYeah I'm not sure what Google's value add is. It might be like how Simple Bank was partnered with BBVA to run the back end (before BBVA straight up bought them).