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On my Pixel phone, there are many Google-made apps that are not just essential to the way I live and work, but completely impossible for me to let go of. Calendar has all my important meetings and upcoming events; Chrome has my entire browsing history and research; Gmail is, well, Gmail; Meet is how I video call my parents; Maps is how I can move around my new home, Paris, without getting lost; and Photos is where all my memories and all my life are summed up in perfectly categorized albums and tagged faces and places. There are more, too, but if you asked me about the most essential Google-made app for me today, it would be something else: Google Wallet. And no, not just for payments.
How Google Wallet slowly won over my trust
