Google To Devs: Use Our Payment System Or Be Dropped

Meshach writes "Google has been pressuring applications and mobile game developers to use its costlier in-house payment service, Google Wallet for quite some time. Now Google warned several developers in recent months that if they continued to use other payment methods — such as PayPal, Zong and Boku — their apps would be removed from Google Play. The move is seen as a way to cut costs for Google by using their own system."

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[busyqth]

This is awesome because Google is awesome.
If Google says it's the right way to go, it's gotta be the best.

Good luck with that developers

[SuperKendall]

I tried to pay for conference registration using google payment... after going through too many badly designed data collection screens, I eventually reached an error page that claimed I could resolve it by going to the page I was on...

I gave up and sent a check.