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The Google Pay app is dead
Google Wallet takes over app duties, but it looks like Google is quitting P2P payments.
The shutdown caps off the implosion of Google's payments division after a lot of poor decisions and failed product launches. In 2011, Google was a technology trailblazer and basically popularized the idea of paying for something with your phone in many regions (with the notable exception of Japan). You could only be signed in to one device at a time, which is maybe fine in the phone-exclusive world of India but weird in the US, where people have phones, watches, laptops, tablets, and PCs.
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