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(googler, opinions are my own). I really wish we would have stayed with the Google Wallet moniker. Seeing that you can add student IDs, Walgreens Card[0], Vac
by kyrra 5y ago
(googler, opinions are my own).
I really wish we would have stayed with the Google Wallet moniker. Seeing that you can add student IDs, Walgreens Card[0], Vaccine status/card[1], various metro cards (like Japan's Suica[2]), it is more like a wallet than a pay app at this point.
[0] https://www.walgreens.com/topic/promotion/google-pay.jsp https://www.walgreens.com/topic/promotion/google-pay.jsp
[1] https://support.google.com/googlepay/answer/10890261?visit_id=637636016262375930-2587230079&rd=1 https://support.google.com/googlepay/answer/10890261?visit_i...
[2] https://blog.google/products/google-pay/add-suica-and-waon-google-pay-japan/ https://blog.google/products/google-pay/add-suica-and-waon-g...
- Causality1 5y ago"The only way to justify my job is to convince people things need to be changed" is a cancer in Google. It's why they renamed the Android Market the "Play Store" as if that name wasn't fucking ridiculous.
- wlesieutre 5y agoI assume the Play Store rename was motivated by wanting to have it under proprietary branding, instead of being a generic store name that's also available to de-Googled competitors who don't ship Google Play services.
- wlesieutre 5y agoYeah as a non-Android user I was confused by this page. You have to add your card to Google Pay to be able to use it for dorm entry? That's very Google of them, like needing to enable "Web & App Activity" tracking to be able to get home/work directions in Maps. But then I wasn't sure if they just branded "any NFC pass you can put in your phone" as "Google Pay" which would be stupid but believable. Thanks for confirming.