That’s a problem, cos it just spent $51 billion on infrastructure and still needs to rent compute from others to run its cloud

Shares in Google’s parent company Alphabet dived by almost ten percent on Wednesday, after the web giant admitted AI-powered searches earn it less money than it earns by serving ads with its old-school search engine.

  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Irritated by Google. I heard getting banking apps working is kind of a pain in the ass though, how’s the experience been for you so far?

    • nullptr@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      my banking app works, because it doesn’t require hardware authentication. This will be the case for all “correctly” developed apps, because usually, the “NFC payment” is provided by a second, optional app. That one doesn’t work.

    • csh83669@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Google wallet not working means no tap to pay, which I consider a big loss. And none of my credit card apps (chase and capitalone) work outside of Google android, so that sucks.

        • csh83669@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          17 hours ago

          Sure. I could also just not have a phone, or ever leave the house. But being able to pay for things with ones phone is convenient, and I miss the convenience daily. I wish there were privacy respecting alternatives, but there are not.

    • Badabinski@kbin.earth
      2·
      2 days ago

      All of my banking apps work perfectly. The only apps that don’t seem to work are Google Wallet (good riddance), FedEx, UPS, and Coinbase (I bought a very small amount of ETH many years ago and haven’t wanted to deal with the tax situation by selling it. I should just do so and then be quits of the horrible piece of shit company).