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Google Announces One Pass Payment System
eldavojohn writes "Riding the tail of Apple's 30% announcement, Google's Eric Schmidt has announced One Pass, a new method for users to pay for content. The BBC is reporting that Google is taking a 10% cut. One Pass will work on Google sites and on phones and tablets as the announcement notes: 'Readers who purchase from a One Pass publisher can access their content on tablets, smartphones and websites using a single sign-on with an email and password. Importantly, the service helps publishers authenticate existing subscribers so that readers don't have to re-subscribe in order to access their content on new devices.' This is to be handled through Google Checkout."
Google Vs. Apple, FIGHT!
TekGoblin
You mean the payment system that's only available to businesses in about three countries and completely useless to the rest of the world?
So they have some reason to upgrade old phones. They aren't going to do it with no incentive.
Otherwise you might as well just quit now cause devs will either target the phone with the features they want and have a limited amount of potential customers until everyone has completed the 2 year contract upgrade cycle OR devs will target 1.6 to get the largest audience and well, it won't be worth bothering with Android devices.
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It will be interesting to see how these systems (OnePass and Apple's App Store) compare. Does anyone know if Google is hosting the content free of charge on the Google App store, or is this payment system independent of hosting? It seems like the latter from the two articles I read, but they were both vague. In the end I suppose most publishers will use both to target the most eyeballs, but with both mobile powerhouses stepping in, Amazon and B&N and Sony are going to have to step up their game.
I think it's very misleading when they say it's "our content" which "we own".
You don't own the content unless it's in your possession.
In the virtual world I have a Beam Rifle and a Plasma Sword but it doesn't mean that I "own" one.
In Google's eyes, you are the product they are selling to the customer (the publisher). In Apple's eyes, you are the customer. I know which I prefer.
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
I guess being next door to US, Canada doesn't count as a worthy place to have Checkout available to merchants but they sure don't tell you that till you sing up and then get shafted.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Who would have ever thought that the 1-3% service fee that credit cards take from retail & other transactions could be considered small? Kudos to Google & Apple for managing to make Visa & Mastercard look good.
But search is not going so well. JC Penny hacked Google for months before the NY Times called them on it, and now it is unclear if Google will or can do anything about it. JC Penny did nothing illegal. Given the current state of technology, Google no longer has a relevant search engine. It is too easily hacked. Often the top searches are ad farms that auto generate random phrases to match a search. I am more and more going to known good locations for answers. It reminds me of then the web got too big for Yahoo to hand pick sites or too popular for key words to be a honest proxy for Alta Vista to index. Google can whine that what JC Penny did was unfair, but whining is not going to fix search. Maybe MS will fix search, and Google will see ad revenue drop.
And what is my point? Instead of innovating search, Google is copying what everyone else is doing. Now, Docs might be good enough to allow Google to dominate ads, but I can see the day coming when I am going to turn off the Google cookie. Certainly checkout is not valuable enough to trade personal information. Google should fix search and not just complain that others are doing perfectly reasonable thing to maximize their profile. Link farms are not the evil. Bad Google algorithms are. And as long as Google plays me too, they will not be in the forefront. If we think this cannot happen, look at Nokia.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
I really like google, but I don't like the idea of associating SO much with my online google identity. I've still not "linked" my youtube and gmail accounts. I have a Google Checkout account, but only because I trust them more than I other companies like Buy.com and don't want to bother creating a Buy.com account.
The part that strikes conflict in me is having entertainment and education video associated with my google account. That alone is enough to extrapolate any political leanings, sexual preference, likely circle of friends, etc...
Summary of realms I keep separate online:
Gaming
Video Entertainment
Buying Habits
Career/Work
Tech Communities
Humor Communities
I would really prefer to keep all that separate and Google's not making it easy.
Yes, yes, it's obvious that the old-fashioned way was just as egregious. That's not really the point.
Let me try and put it using a different allegory...
In olden-days, in order to subscribe to XYZ weekly, you had to present your backside to the publisher, who took a run-up, and then kicked your arse as hard as he could with his hob-nail boots. You'd go flying through the air to land in the cold, wet slush outside Ye Olde Publisher Shoppe. Dripping wet, soaked to the skin, you'd go home and nurse yourself through the resultant pneumonia whilst reading your periodical.
On Googleworld, this still applies, even for virtual periodicals. You still get the whopping big kick up the arse, and you can then read your periodical.
On Appleworld, you get to choose whether the publisher kicks you up the arse. Some people will choose 'Yes, please. Kick me up the arse', presumably for some suitable trade-off in kind. Most people will not.
Just because it was always thus is no justification for it to remain so. Apple are looking after the customer here; Google are selling the customer out to the publisher in the name of Mammon (as well as using the personal details themselves, of course).
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
All this crap about companies starting to charge just to distribute the content is going to bite them in the ass. What this is going to do is drive news content to be distributed freely as part of a twitter aggregator app that will scrape the data and present the news in a customized version for the end user. Screw Apple, Screw Google, Screws Newscorp and anyone else that tries to impose this scalping model. Really, you're not as important as you think you are.. And everyone may just discover that some day soon....
Great, now I can spend my Continental OnePass miles to buy content.
It is smarter for Google to start with US and get the system working within the largest market
"Largest market" has more than one meaning. The People's Republic of China has more population than the USA, as does India. The 27 states of the European Union also have more population than the 50 states of the USA.
But beware, if you use it The Eye of Sergey will be fixed on you.
Just want to be sure no patents are being infringed here...
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A day late and a dollar short. Google cries "me too, me too" once again. For once I would like to start seeing Google bring the innovations to the world rather then following in kind. They have the knowledge, manpower and money to create some very good things, and while they make things better for the most part, its hard to put a finger on what Google has really done that is "new". Late to the browser game, late to social networking, late to the OS game, wasn't the first web search, wasn't the first to bring ads, wasn't the first to make a phone OS, wasn't the first to offer online email services, wasn't the first to bring the Cloud to the world.... this list goes on.
I think Google needs take the "beta" sticker off the company and make something unexpected and new for a change.
Google by default send your name, zip-code, email address to the publisher.
Do you want to give us a cite for this horse shit?
Google is a company that backs net neutrality. And then it goes and levies a gatekeeping charge on top of content? Man, I don't like the telco's imposing their will any more than anybody, but when shenanigans like this are the norm, no wonder the telco's want to get more money for desirable content. I think this basically should remove any illusions about net neutrality. As difficult as it may be to make it succeed, I think FreedomBox is our best hope.
From you local bookstore/ with cash....
Maybe you want to remain anonymous..
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"Google Checkout? You mean the payment system...?"
No, they mean DRM.