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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."
While you're free to make an app with any payment system you want, using anything but Google's own results in you being cut off from nearly all of the Android audience.
If there's a clear example of "force by practicality", here is one front and center.
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I would have loved to have jumped on board with Googles payment system in place of PayPal... but there was a slight problem... it was "US Only". It would seem that if I look at the dominant players in various fields, they are players that embrace the fact that the internet and more importantly, consumers, exist well beyond the US alone.
Soon as Google lets us buy/sell stuff using their PayPal-replacment across the bulk of the world, I'll be interested.
It's just about getting a cut of the sales.
That's the ONLY thing this is about.
it can be wrapped in 7 layers of bullshit, but that's still what this is about in the end.
sure, it's an attack on paypal, on facebook credits etc. but that's only means to an end which is getting a cut of your purchases.
I'm pretty sure they won't extend this to banking apps though!
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
The alternative was already there.
If the alternative were better, you'd have already known this.
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It will be interesting to see what comes out of this.
With the subject "Open" no less. Honestly, your post contributed absolutely nothing of value to the conversation, and one can only surmise that you're trolling for points for mods who are suffering from chronic sleep deprivation. I sincerely hope any mods viewing this will mod the OP into oblivion.
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So what? Ebay also did this with Paypal. Before Ebay ruined itself, you could have a choice of payment processor including the one they most liked you to use - but was NOT compulsory to use their payment processor (which was NOT Paypal).
Then one day, Ebay decides to make it compulsory to have Paypay as a payment option. Around about that time I gave two fingers to Ebay. You WILL NOT force me to use a 100% unethical bent company to sell my no longer needed stuff, and have not used Ebay since.
And so Google are going the same way. Oh well.
Take Nobody's Word For It.
If only Timothy had posted this story, with some kind of snarky one-liner that clearly told me whether this was a good thing or bad thing!
Forget about Tim, I'll do it.
It's official. Google is evil now (they're not even going to try to hide it anymore).
It's part of their new branding strategy.
People who accept bitcoins punish themselves.
I've used both Google Wallet and I've used PayPal
And I've used other online payment services
I find Google Wallet a little bit more "friendly" to the user. PayPal, which I've used for years and years, has become more and more, how should I say - arrogant
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Do is sense an anti trust suit? Yes I do!
I don't think the market you use has anything to do with whether Android is open or not, as long as you're not locked to that market. I mean, is Debian not open because I can't force them to put applications that don't comply with the DFSG on the main repository?
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The thing is, even if we accept 'beg' as an alternative to 'raise', 'begging the question' is not grammatically correct. Try to replace 'question' with 'money', for example. 'I raise money for orphans' is correct. However, 'I beg money for orphans' is obviously wrong. The correct usage is 'I beg for money for orphans', which does sound awkward, but is grammatically correct. Likewise, the grammatically correct phrase would be 'begging for the question' instead of 'begging the question'.
Dropbox drops it like it's hot.
According to this article: http://www.i-programmer.info/news/81-web-general/3895-google-insists-on-google-wallet.html
1. Developers outside the US are exempted
2. Google Wallet charges a float 5%, Paypal charges $0.30 + 2.9%. Google Wallet is only more expensive if your app costs > $14.28. Considering the prices of most Android apps, I'd say calling Google Wallet "costlier" is a downright lie.