[HN Gopher] Google Pay app will no longer be available
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Google Pay app will no longer be available
Author : paulddraper
Score : 30 points
Date : 2024-02-22 21:34 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| KomoD wrote:
| That title is very misleading, it ONLY impacts the US version
| happymellon wrote:
| Wait a minute, I thought Google Pay was the android wallet for
| storing cards to make purchased via tapping your phone/watch.
|
| This talks about having a balance, does Google Pay offer
| accounts in the US, or am I getting myself mixed up with
| another product?
|
| [Edit] I don't think I'm getting mixed up.
|
| https://pay.google.com/about/
|
| > Google Pay is the fast, simple way to pay on sites, in apps,
| and in stores using the cards saved to your Google Account.
|
| Google Wallet appears to expose Google Pay on Android devices,
| but is just an interface to Google Pay.
|
| It used to be the Google Pay app but was rebranded as Google
| Wallet. And Google Pay app is something else?
| malermeister wrote:
| I think the wallet is Google Wallet. Very confusing, I know.
| happymellon wrote:
| From their website in the UK
|
| https://pay.google.com/about/
|
| --------
|
| Google Pay is the fast, simple way to pay on sites, in
| apps, and in stores using the cards saved to your Google
| Account.
|
| :Add a card to Google Pay:
|
| And download Google Wallet to pay with your Android device.
|
| ----
|
| I think Google Wallet is just the Android app to use Google
| Pay and you use it to save cards *to* Google Pay. They even
| have a link to "Add a card to Google Pay". Pretty sure a
| couple of years ago Google Wallet was called Google Pay,
| but they renamed it. Presumably for whatever service Google
| Pay App is.
|
| Really confusing. Classic Google.
| bhhaskin wrote:
| Yeah the split it up. I am pretty sure this is the Vemo
| like service of being able to send money to other people.
| happymellon wrote:
| The banking system in the US is so messed up, and Venmo
| is so hostile.
|
| Here in the UK I can just send people money immediately,
| and been able to do that for decades.
| KomoD wrote:
| Same here (Swish), we've got great authentication as well
| (BankID)
| dboreham wrote:
| It's deliberately messed up in order to make more profit
| if you're a bank. UK has proper electronic funds transfer
| because the culture accepts government telling big
| business to do stuff for the public benefit. US political
| corruption and culture precludes that.
| happymellon wrote:
| I think it's worse than that.
|
| My bank offers a US routing and account number so that
| Americans can transfer money, since the banks over there
| struggle with international payments.
|
| I then found out that my in-laws still can't transfer
| money because their bank has removed the ability to send
| money to another account that _isn 't_ via Venmo.
|
| It's not "messed up" it's hostile.
| dboreham wrote:
| Ah the old axiom that you only discover Google offers
| product X on the day they EOL it.
| duskwuff wrote:
| The notice on the Wikipedia article for "Google Wallet" is
| telling:
|
| > _This article is about the mobile app introduced in 2022.
| For the discontinued service of the same name, see Google
| Wallet (2011-2018)._
|
| > _" Google Pay (2018-2022)" redirects here. For the 2020
| app, see Google Pay (mobile app)._
| footpath wrote:
| There's the Google Pay service that processes payments.
|
| There's the old Google Pay app that got rebranded as Google
| Wallet.
|
| And then there's a newer Google Pay app available only in the
| US, Singapore, and India. This is the one getting shutdown.
|
| See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Pay
|
| And a very helpful chart:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Googlepayments.svg
| malermeister wrote:
| Jesus Christ that chart. What is going on over at Google???
| happymellon wrote:
| Payments are the new chat.
| brutal_chaos_ wrote:
| FTA:
|
| Can I still use the tap to pay feature in stores?
|
| Anywhere you normally use Google Pay -- from checking out online
| to tapping and paying in stores -- remains the same. If you use
| your Android phone to shop in stores where Google Pay is
| accepted, you can continue to tap to pay in stores with the
| Google Wallet app.
| impulser_ wrote:
| So I did some research apparently they have gone full circle now.
|
| It started as Google Wallet renamed to Android Pay then renamed
| to Google Pay then split into Google Pay and Google Wallet and
| now back to just Google Wallet.
|
| Google is a fucking mess lol. I know Sundar has been great for
| shareholder, but man maybe it's time for a change.
|
| A fake post about them getting rid of Gmail next year is going
| viral on Twitter and you bet people are believing it or double
| checking because it's Google.
| ignoramous wrote:
| > _I know Sundar has been great..._
|
| Think the execs responsible for this were excused en masse or
| quit: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/google-pay-team-
| repo...
|
| Some founded a fintech company that now also does AI, because
| why not.
| z2 wrote:
| I likely lost touch with some friends over the years because of
| general confusion over Google Talk, GTalk through GMail,
| Google+ Hangouts, later Hangouts, GChat (which I understand to
| be separate from the current Google Chat?), and Google Chat.
| The ones I've kept in contact with all agreed to move back to
| SMS and email.
|
| Meanwhile ten years after Apple supported adding boarding
| passes to their wallet, I finally managed to force a plane
| ticket into my Google wallet by taking a picture of the
| barcode, so there's that.
| kivlad wrote:
| It gets worse though, the app actually split into "Google Pay"
| and the new "GPay", where the latter was originally an India-
| only app they reworked for the rest of the world. In old Google
| Pay you'd see messages that it'll stop working soon and that
| you should migrate to the new GPay, but if you ignored them you
| could still use it. Then, they eventually overhauled _old_
| Google Pay back to "Google Wallet", and now they're telling
| people in the US remaining on "new" GPay that it's deprecated
| and to switch back...
|
| Pulled precisely from the Google textbook. Specifically the
| chapter on Hangouts.
| mey wrote:
| Well there was Inbox by Gmail at one point, and I feel there
| was something _else_ that tried to be an alternative to gmail
| as well at one point. I 'm waiting for YouTube to be split back
| into YouTube and Google Video, one going full in on
| TikTok/Shorts content and the other going back to long form
| content.
| ChrisClark wrote:
| Google Wave is the other one you're trying to remember.
| Freedom2 wrote:
| Google's lack of product sense is embedded in their culture.
| Consider that they consider this [1] a good interview question,
| then extrapolate that to the rest of their culture and you can
| see how we've ended up here.
|
| [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35545817
| dcchambers wrote:
| Google's history with their payment apps/platform is almost as
| convoluted as their history with message apps/platforms.
|
| I swear they have gone back and forth on Android Pay/Google
| Wallet/Google Pay a half dozen times.
| paulddraper wrote:
| You mean Google TalkVoiceWaveBuzzDiscoHangoutsmeetHuddleHangout
| sAlloDuoHangoutsmeetHangoutschatPhonemessagingChat?
|
| Google does not mess around with adherence to "naming things is
| hard."
| darth_avocado wrote:
| Strange that Apple can make Apple pay work so well but Google
| keeps botching it. If nothing else, just copy the product and
| build what Apple has built, but for Android.
| mhitza wrote:
| > Common questions about these changes
|
| Does not include a reason for this change or why is it a US only
| change.
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