• Scrubbles
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    477 months ago

    Standard Google. Make 2 competing products. See which one is successful. Force all of the other users to successful one even if there are less features. 5 years later kill off that one for another meaningless changeover.

    They stopped innovating in the late 2000s. It’s all been pointless marketing rebrands since.

    • FlumPHP
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      297 months ago

      To make matters worse, they keep reusing the same names for things. I honestly don’t know if I use Google Pay or Google Wallet? I just push the credit card icon on my phone.

      • rem26_art
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        77 months ago

        I didn’t even realize Pay and Wallet were two different things lmao. Apparently, I use Wallet

      • @[email protected]
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        57 months ago

        Doesn’t the huge diversity of blue, red, green, yellow logos make it obvious which app is which?

    • @[email protected]
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      77 months ago

      They stopped innovating in the late 2000s. It’s all been pointless marketing rebrands since.

      Capitalism in a nutshell. Once a monopoly has been established, all that’s left is to keep others down through bs IP laws, patents and decrease wages.

      • @korny
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        47 months ago

        According to the article posted, yes.