• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    9 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.

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      9 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.

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        9 months ago

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

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      9 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.