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[–] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wait, Google Pay still exists? Wasn't it rebranded to Wallet?

[–] Alto@kbin.social 30 points 8 months ago (4 children)

In true Google fashion, they remade the same product, gave it a new name, and made it compete with the existing one.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 8 months ago

a manager needed their promotion

[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 11 points 8 months ago

Just FYI, it was wallet originally, moved to "pay" then both existed for way too long with not really knowing which did what

Now we're back to wallet.

🤦‍♂️

[–] honey_im_meat_grinding@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Google drank so much capitalist koolaid they thought the company needed internal competition when the main reason they remain so big is because they have big chunks of monopoly power in several key tech fields

[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not the same, you can't pay friends directly with wallet. The core function that I use weekly is being gutted with no replacement.

[–] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Just use zelle it's built into your bank app

[–] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I saw this news today and literally don't even understand how it affects me. I don't know what the difference is between Wallet and Pay.

[–] bradboimler@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

You can pay friends with Pay. You can't do that with Wallet.