What is actually the point of Google pay??

Over say, your debit card? Seems pointlessly redundent to me but I notice hipsters and yuppies love it for "REASONS".

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Elessar · 26-30, M

From the company perspective: monitoring your transactions, to accumulate even more data about you. It's Google we're speaking of. They get hard thinking of Paypal and that they could do that too.

From the user perspective: you don't need to carry around your wallet to make payments. Only time it would've been useful is when I go to the beach, or other places where I'm hardly bringing anything but the phone with me, like when you go running/cycling/hiking/doing sports and want to be light.

MethDozer · M

@Elessar Of anything I'd leave my phone at home because it is delicate and doesn't carry an ID card.

Elessar · 26-30, M

@MethDozer Well I'd still have to carry it for music, for calling in case of emergencies and for the sport tracking app

MethDozer · M

@Elessar meh. Emergencies were handled just fine before cellphones. I find the whole "needed for emergencies" arguement for cell phones to be a canard

Elessar · 26-30, M

@MethDozer Well this argument could be used against every technology, for instance illumination was handled just fine with candles before electricity was a thing, but I'd still rather have light-bulbs and such at home.

MethDozer · M

@Elessar True, but elcectric light didn't solve a non issue. It just replaced the solution to an actual issue.

Elessar · 26-30, M

@MethDozer So did cellphones with the problem of emergency situations 😋

MethDozer · M

@Elessar I guess so. I never really seen them be that valuable in any personally.