<story><title>Google Pay app will no longer be available</title><url>https://support.google.com/googlepay/answer/14555219?hl=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcchambers</author><text>Google&amp;#x27;s history with their payment apps&amp;#x2F;platform is almost as convoluted as their history with message apps&amp;#x2F;platforms.&lt;p&gt;I swear they have gone back and forth on Android Pay&amp;#x2F;Google Wallet&amp;#x2F;Google Pay a half dozen times.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>I forgot where it was mentioned [1] that the mess comes from a poor management of international feature list.&lt;p&gt;In particular, Google wanted it to be successful in India.&lt;p&gt;But the prior app was designed with USA sensibilities and requirements. Such as, oh, requiring an email and Google account! The thought was that this wouldn&amp;#x27;t fly in India, and it had to work with just a phone number.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure there were perverse&amp;#x2F;crossed incentives on delivery deadlines that lead the leadership team to decide that completely breaking the existing flow&amp;#x2F;splitting the userbase was the way forward.&lt;p&gt;[1] Perhaps this Ars Technica article from 2022: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;gadgets&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;google-wallet-rolls-out-to-users-will-live-alongside-google-pay-in-the-us&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;gadgets&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;google-wallet-rolls-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Pay app will no longer be available</title><url>https://support.google.com/googlepay/answer/14555219?hl=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcchambers</author><text>Google&amp;#x27;s history with their payment apps&amp;#x2F;platform is almost as convoluted as their history with message apps&amp;#x2F;platforms.&lt;p&gt;I swear they have gone back and forth on Android Pay&amp;#x2F;Google Wallet&amp;#x2F;Google Pay a half dozen times.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulddraper</author><text>You mean Google TalkVoiceWaveBuzzDiscoHangoutsmeetHuddleHangoutsAlloDuoHangoutsmeetHangoutschatPhonemessagingChat?&lt;p&gt;Google does not mess around with adherence to &amp;quot;naming things is hard.&amp;quot;</text></comment>