While Google may or may not refrain from putting ads in their wallet app due to this incident, the aggressive ways that they use to get me to use the wallet app have been off putting enough.
Every now and then, there is a full-screen popup on my phone that wants to onboard me into the wallet app. The only options I have are "yes" or "later".
Clearly a company that operates on the principle of "If the user doesn't want to, let's just nag them to death until they give up" is not to be trusted.
Windows' sins are the utter lack of elegance and outright hostility to the generic users. And I understand those trigger visceral reactions for many.
Yet macos' polish and elegance just hide different issues, in particular the utter lack of flexibility (Apple's way or the highway) and expecting to solve most issues by throwing money at it (want 3D perfs ? just buy another computer)
I personally couldn't understand why I'd keep paying for both a macbook and an ipad just to have a "real" computer and a touch screen. Microsoft made the Surface Pro a decade ago now.
You're right, and I have seen this pattern elsewhere. Especially on Windows systems (I, personally, switched to Linux decades ago). So Google is definitely not alone here.
But, as already mentioned in the original article, the wallet is an especially sensitive area.
Every now and then, there is a full-screen popup on my phone that wants to onboard me into the wallet app. The only options I have are "yes" or "later".
Clearly a company that operates on the principle of "If the user doesn't want to, let's just nag them to death until they give up" is not to be trusted.