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Google Wallet API For Digital Goods Will Be Retired On March 2, 2015

Posted by samzenpus on from the end-of-the-line dept.

An anonymous reader points out that Google plans to shut down Google Wallet API for third-party digital purchases. "Google has quietly revealed it plans to retire the Google Wallet API for digital goods on March 2, 2015. The company plans to continue supporting the sale of apps on Google Play as well as in-app payments, but users will not be able to purchase any virtual items offered on the Web through Google Wallet. We say "quietly" because there is no official announcement from Google. Furthermore, Google says it has no plans to proactively communicate the change to Google Wallet users; buyers will simply get 404 errors when trying to check out after support is pulled."

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  1. Google's Paypal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google had some competing thing of paypal, for credit cards I used quite often and they retired that too years ago. It was something I used quite frequently.

    They retired that too. Thing was my business depended on it and it took a while to find a nonpaypal solution.

    All this type of stuff does is remind me to not rely on google for merchant options. Business want stability.

  2. Doing Google Wallet quietly? Shocker... by DigitAl56K · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google do everything with Wallet quietly. I bet a good chunk of Android users don't even know Wallet exists because Google never market it, which is a shame because it actually works really well.

  3. Not killing Wallet, just payment for digital goods by technomom · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is just killing a very small function in wallet that mostly no one was using anyway. It does not in any way kill Google Wallet NFC payments or Wallet itself.

  4. Re:So, why the continued G-love? by nateman1352 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I no longer have faith in ANY of the conglomerates offering products all over the board.

    Any conglomerate? What about 3M? They make a ton of stuff across the board and I buy a lot of their products (Scotch Tape, Post-It Notes, Scotch Brights, Nexcare & ACE bandages...) and honestly the only product I can think of that they dropped that I used a lot was their floppy disks... and they didn't really drop their floppy disk line they just sold it off as a separate company (Imation) and I was able to keep buying those floppy disks until floppys were pretty much dead and I no longer had any need for them.

    When a conglomerate is well managed it actually works great, the problem is a lot of tech companies have tunnel vision and don't know how to manage a conglomerate.