Google had a very successful payments app called Tez in India. They merged that into Google pay during a flutter rewrite so that they can say things like “Google pay has 200 million users in 120 countries” even though all 200 million of those were in India.
In India, Google pay is a client for the UPI platform. You could send money from Google pay to Whatsapp pay for example.
then imagine what the collective hubris and arrogance displayed by the people in this sub-thread would imply about their respective countries’ democratic nature.
obviously indices created by the west would rank themselves higher.
India has a much more robust democracy because Indians have several dozen political parties to choose from unlike the US which has only 2 recognised parties.
India has had Prime Ministers from even very small regional parties that formed giant coalitions.
Americans meanwhile are stuck with 2 parties they perpetually hate
It makes it sound like there’s a pollution warfare even though the article makes no justifications on how these countries are choking on each other’s pollution rather than their own. The article also talks about Nepal and Bhutan but the title has only Ind/Pak
it’s hard not to associate a nefarious reason especially because it is the economist
should have simply been “South Asia is choking in its pollution”
Google used to be the company that delivered us a fast browser, free online video streaming and was going to give absurdly cheaper fiber and wireless internet and affordable yet awesome smartphones.
Plus, what kind of strategy is it to antagonise every single large player in the industry.
Apple and Amazon are friendly to each other. Microsoft and Facebook have been longtime partners despite Microsoft owning Linkedin. but Google manages to enter everybody’s industry and fail.
And at that time they were also operating with enthusiastic Engineers who can’t write bubble sort on their first try but then started hiring using the methods that led to “Cracking the coding interview” and terrible products
Google Pay is huge in India but it is/was a completely different product that started in Google India as Tez but was taken over from the Indian team and ruined.
Google claims to operate Pay in dozens of countries with millions of transactions but almost all of them are from India where Google pay is merely a client for UPI
For a company that really depends on user click signals, removing the dislike count from Youtube (and making the button pointless) is a amateurish mistake indicating a very broken internal structure.
the search UX, especially the top bar where you switch between search types is broken for nearly a decade and they are not able to fix that.
Browser vendors are free to choose their own default search engines and get paid for it just like how Brave search is the default search on brave private
This tweet thread is unnecessarily confusing the two. How does restricting browser engine to webkit decide what browser engines they use?
The documentation has nothing to indicate that it is.