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by tempnow987 1549 days ago
What a ridiculous headline and post title.

Amazon alone does 200B+ in product sales each year (with another 200B+ in services). The idea that google is going to be competitive with that with this "last mile fleet solutions" offering is ridiculous.

Google should be worried that that amazon trucks will be delivering google products more than amazon worrying about being taken out by google in this space.

Google pay has been a hot mess. Google shopping has been a hotter mess (I stopped using the variants of this). The idea that layering on last mile fleet solutions to this mess is going to "take on" Amazon. Sorry, but no.

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> Google pay has been a hot mess.

I recently replaced my iPhone 12 Pro with a Pixel 5a. I never had any issues with Apple Pay, but I'd say that about 30% of the time I try using Google Pay at stores and restaurants in my city, something goes wrong. Usually I get a green checkmark on my Pixel, bit the reader doesn't agree, and I have to try again. In fact just this afternoon the reader gave some arcane error message that looked like it belonged in a log file rather than on the screen of a consumer-facing payment device. The clerk told me, "Apple Pay seems to work fine. Google phones always have trouble. Do you just have a card you can use instead?"