Is Google still an American company or is it a repository for INDIAN dreams and visions that tend to go awry.
The latest casualty is apparently GOOGLE PAY is going to the Google graveyard. The Indianization of Google. Imagine bringing a bright idea that what works in India should be replicated in America who's economy, culture, habits, access to technology infrastructures etc. are wholly different to that of India.
From the article:
"The 2021 Google Pay was a totally different codebase based on a Google payments app that was originally developed for India, called Google Tez. Tez was rebranded to Google Pay for the US market and launched on the Play Store. Being designed for India, where a phone might be your first and only Internet device, meant the new Google Pay had a lot of design decisions that didn't fit the US market. It used a phone number for your identity instead of your Google Account, and when you started it up for the first time, Google Pay didn't know who you were. It was like signing up for a new service that wasn't owned by Google. The phone number identity system meant Google had to shut down the previously useful Google Pay website, which could be used for peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, just like Venmo. You could only be signed in to one device at a time, which is maybe fine in the phone-exclusive world of India but weird in the US, where people have phones, watches, laptops, tablets, and PCs."
The latest casualty is apparently GOOGLE PAY is going to the Google graveyard. The Indianization of Google. Imagine bringing a bright idea that what works in India should be replicated in America who's economy, culture, habits, access to technology infrastructures etc. are wholly different to that of India.
From the article:
"The 2021 Google Pay was a totally different codebase based on a Google payments app that was originally developed for India, called Google Tez. Tez was rebranded to Google Pay for the US market and launched on the Play Store. Being designed for India, where a phone might be your first and only Internet device, meant the new Google Pay had a lot of design decisions that didn't fit the US market. It used a phone number for your identity instead of your Google Account, and when you started it up for the first time, Google Pay didn't know who you were. It was like signing up for a new service that wasn't owned by Google. The phone number identity system meant Google had to shut down the previously useful Google Pay website, which could be used for peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, just like Venmo. You could only be signed in to one device at a time, which is maybe fine in the phone-exclusive world of India but weird in the US, where people have phones, watches, laptops, tablets, and PCs."
