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This should not be seen as chats, but transaction documentation. The dialogs associated with informal or semi-formal transactions may not belong in your person
by achow 6y ago
This should not be seen as chats, but transaction documentation.
The dialogs associated with informal or semi-formal transactions may not belong in your personal chat space; quite often that set of dialogs exists only before and during the transactions and never after that.
> ..but they have too much badwill since then..
Google pay is the market leader in India in fintech. It is perhaps most trusted brand. The notion of "Google is evil", "Kills of products so would not use its services" only exist in HN bubble, if we leave this space and go to emerging markets Google absolutely rules.
- rendall 6y ago>> if we leave this space and go to emerging markets Google absolutely rules I can understand why! Google services are free, or free-ish, and work extremely well! Do you think sudden account bans with no recourse are something to be concerned about, or is it a lightning-strike-rare kind of situation: happens, but does not bear worrying about?
- pjc50 6y agoI think they're both a rare lightning event, and something that people in emerging markets are probably more used to happening from other sources. I remember a while ago there was an outbreak of news reports of people being wrongly declared dead in India, which gave them all manner of bureaucratic trouble. I don't know if Aardhar has made that better or worse.
- ashleshbiradar 6y agoa huge chunk of Indian internet users have got access to internet only in the last 5 years or so, and almost all of them are digitally illiterate. Internet basically means, Facebook, Whatsapp, Tiktok, and Google. I know abundance of users who made a gmail account, just to get started with their android phone and do not understand what email even is.