If at first you don't succeed, you're probably Google: Android Pay arrives Google has finally rolled out its new mobile payment system for phones running Android in the US. Called Android Pay, the system largely copies Apple's Apple Pay system for iPhones by using the credit card companies' preferred method of "tokenization," which means a single-use token rather than your actual credit card …
How long will a payment system that only works on 12% of phones, where Apple skim it's percentage last? I suspect about 10 minutes after Google launch it's payment system app for iOS (like most Google apps eventually end up on iOS too).
Even if the later doesn't happen, a payment system that only works with 12% of the devices on the market, and the one that works with 88% of the market... I think the future is already written.
Did you read the bit about "taking its spoils in the stream of purchasing data it will then gain access to"?
Fuck that. Apple never find out what I bought, and have no access to my purchasing data. One more nail (in a heavily nailed) coffin for Android, as far as I'm concerned.
Seems like you fell for the apple aren't interested in your private data spin. They sell your data just like Microsoft, Google, yahoo, Facebook and linked in all do..
There is no such thing as data privacy. Didn't the icloud data hack teach you anything??
I actually trust Google way more than apple. Google are very clear how my data is used . apples privacy policies are ambiguous in many ways.
I suspect you haven't read either, and your opinion is crafted from reading online blogs.
So Google copied the methods, look and feel and nearly the name of Apple Pay. I don't think this will go over too well with the folks in Cupertino...
Or, just maybe, the banks told Google what system they would be prepared to support, and first Apple and now Google have listened.
As it says in the article:
...using the credit card companies' preferred method ...
The new approach has led to immediate adoption by the big four credit card companies...
It's the banks and credit card companies calling the shots here, not Apple or Google.
Not yet. This is US-only.
Thank God. You'll still be safe for a while. Whereas Apple actually has dedicated hardware support for its crypto, Google is entirely reliant on software to make this work. Given the massive amount of problems with Android vulnerabilities and the frankly patchy (sorry) approach to updates where vendors act as barriers I wouldn't want to trust Google Pay. PS: ditto for any attempts Microsoft may make - I suspect this is the real reason why they're trying to get friendly with Apple right now.
Not to mention the fact that Google will use its knowledge of your purchase to further profile you.
It's interesting how people can be led to sleepwalk into Total Surveillance Society without any resistance. It's impressive, really.
In Google's defense, everyone in the industry was deliberately obstructing them in an entirely misguided and ludditic attempt to prevent the evil Google empire from establishing a standard for mobile payments. And now that Tim Cook's fruit company is that standard everyone is panicking and rushing back to Google for help.
Rinse and repeat with local banks in every market that first Google, then ISIS, then Apple, and then Google will enter.
In Google's defense, everyone in the industry was deliberately obstructing them in an entirely misguided and ludditic attempt to prevent the evil Google empire from establishing a standard for mobile payments.
I think it was more to prevent Google from establishing a standard which gave it open and unfettered access to every purchase you ever made. I don't trust Google with my email, so why should I even think about trusting them with my money?
Google's business is intelligence. Once you keep that in mind it's easy to see what they do, what their aims are and where you can stop them from mounting even more subversive surveillance.
To be fair its not really googles problem but the your phone manufacturers that the issue. Google fixed these bugs published the fixes and already pushed out the updates to anyone running a nexus (the only phone they control the OTA updates for).
The source code is there for each and every phone vendor to use, have they pulled the code and pushed out updates for you? No, they would rather you buy a new device (which they hope will line their pockets). This is exactly what I did I ditched HTC on my latest device and got a nexus.
Its true though google need to try to do more to force vendors to push out updates, but its a trade off of allowing other vendors to use your OS for a device instead of not letting anyone use it like apple do.
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