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Re:Google Pay app will no longer be available by footpath on Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:23PM (#39474160)
There's the Google Pay service that processes payments.

There's the old Google Pay app that got rebranded as Google Wallet.

And then there's a newer Google Pay app available only in the US, Singapore, and India. This is the one getting shutdown.

See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Pay

And a very helpful chart: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Googlepayments.svg

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Re:Google Pay app will no longer be available by malermeister on Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:28PM (#39474213)
Jesus Christ that chart. What is going on over at Google???
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Re:Google Pay app will no longer be available by eitally on Thursday February 22, 2024 @08:17PM (#39475685)
That weird fork the second from the right was from when Google was aspiring to become a bank... or at least partner with one, to offer credit cards.

The far right branch is the "Next Billion Users" stream that launched Tez, which at the time was explicitly and solely for the Indian market, but since it was superior to the Google Wallet/Pay at the time, the VP lead decided to aim for global adoption, which was the previous Pay-->Wallet-->Pay nonsense a couple years ago. That has failed, so now everything is reverting back to the original/primary branch on the far left, which is and has always been, owned by the Android team.

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Re:Google Pay app will no longer be available by happymellon on Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:54PM (#39474486)
Payments are the new chat.
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Re:Google Pay app will no longer be available by Tommah on Thursday February 22, 2024 @08:14PM (#39475660)
Once the Supreme Court ruled that money is speech, this was the next logical step.
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Re:Google Pay app will no longer be available by AtlasBarfed on Thursday February 22, 2024 @06:04PM (#39474570)
A fat monopoly and a bunch of unaligned bullshit besides that.

Like its all middle management machiavellianism at this s point.

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