From The: “Um, What?!” Department
Google now asks you to enter your credit card as part of the Gmail signup flow. Bold. twitter.com/rmatei/status/…
— Robert Cezar Matei (@rmatei) February 22, 2012This is going to go over well.
Sure Google, why not continue to saddle your best products with your flailing ones? Rather than improve G+ or Wallet so people want to use them, plant them as roadblocks ahead of search and mail. I’m sure this will work out.
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cflee reblogged this from parislemon and added:
More and more things being bundled into the Gmail (aka Google Account) signup flow.
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chrischelberg reblogged this from parislemon and added:
Hmm, pushy yes? parislemon:
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ybrammer reblogged this from parislemon and added:
It’s because they want to be iTunes… But I don’t sign up for G-mail to buy stuff.
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mrbushido reblogged this from parislemon and added:
I am flabbergasted.
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daveswhiteboard reblogged this from parislemon and added:
Hey, MG, did you actually try signing up for a new Gmail account? I just did and there was no place at all to enter a...
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khurt reblogged this from parislemon and added:
Wow! I guess Apple has 100 million credit cards and Google wants some of that?
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digitizedsociety reblogged this from parislemon and added:
“Bold” is the proper term...dictionary, but the word “bold” just doesn’t seem to properly...
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dangriffey reblogged this from parislemon and added:
Surely this is to encourage more people to have Google accounts WITH credit card numbers attached? For Android app...
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lauraglu said:
You mean like Apple requires me in order to download Instagram?
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privettdesign reblogged this from parislemon and added:
Google gets even more customer-hostile.
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ragingthunderbolt reblogged this from parislemon and added:
MG Siegler at parislemon:...First, as the image above clearly shows, entering your credit...
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Sure Google, why not continue to saddle your best products with your flailing ones? Rather than improve G+ or Wallet so...
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