GPay App and P2P Payments Will Stop Working in the US This June (9to5google.com) 4
An anonymous reader shares a report: When Google Wallet launched in 2022, Google kept the "GPay" app around in a handful of countries. The company announced today that the old Google Pay app is soon going away in the US. That app, which appears as "GPay" on your Android homescreen, was Google's previous vision for mobile payments and finance.
It was "designed around your relationships with people and businesses" with conversation-like threads serving as a purchase history, while keeping track of your spending was another big aspect. GPay will stop working in the US from June 4, 2024. It will remain available for users in India and Singapore as Google continues to "build for the unique needs in those countries." As part of the app going away, Google is shutting down peer-to-peer payments that let you send, request, or receive money from others in the US. Google's P2P offering never really took off.
It was "designed around your relationships with people and businesses" with conversation-like threads serving as a purchase history, while keeping track of your spending was another big aspect. GPay will stop working in the US from June 4, 2024. It will remain available for users in India and Singapore as Google continues to "build for the unique needs in those countries." As part of the app going away, Google is shutting down peer-to-peer payments that let you send, request, or receive money from others in the US. Google's P2P offering never really took off.
The Google Graveyard claims another (Score:1)
I wondered about Google Pay from other apps (Score:2)
A lot of apps, such as fast food ordering apps, use "Google Pay" to allow you to pay your bill when you place your order. This apparently isn't going away. From the article:
Google Pay remains the name of what you actually do during a physical or online transaction and was already handled by Google Wallet.
Re: (Score:2)
Yep, when it comes to giving things names, Google seem to find ways to give the same thing several. Then they also have several products that do the same sort of thing, so for the simple act of "paying for something", which broadly speaking is one thing with a single definition, Google will find a way to give it half dozen.
Google's enshitification isn't (just) privacy related, or even quality-of-service related - it's that they keep on moving stuff around on the shelves, and then give it all new names too.
They have got enough data out of this (Score:2)
so off to the next data mining opportunity they go!