Google would several developers of Android of applications under pressure have turned to for in-app purchases to advance to the payment service Wallet. Who refuses to use the service, would from the Play store.
According to Reuters, wrote to Google several developers per e-mail, in which a deadline was put in which Wallet in the app processed. The applicatiemakers would be forced to Googles payment service for purchases within an application. Currently, many developers use competing payment service for in-app purchases, such as PayPal, which in the future will no longer be allowed to seems to be.
The internetgigant has not yet on the messages responded to. This is still not exactly clear what the reasons are for sending the e-mails. Maybe it is a attempt to earn more money, to the financial transactions at the sales of apps and in-app content. This seems to Google the same to do as a competitor to Apple, that the financial traffic in iOS manages.
Although it is a logical step for Google to allow developers to track Wallet-to-use, is the situation that Reuters paints striking. Google has always had a large degree of freedom for the publishing of applications in the application store, which recently renamed to Play.
Google has recently launched Checkout, a payment service that already could be used for the purchase of software in the application store Play, included in Wallet. Therefore, there are more possibilities for the service, which the mobile app is currently only available for the Us Galaxy Nexus smartphone. Wallet may already be in the Netherlands to be used on the pc; users must have a credit card linked. With the new payment service will the internetgigant Android users with their mobile phone in shops to pay, inter alia, by use of the korteafstandstechnologie nfc.
Update, 13.20: “Our policy has not changed”, let Google know in a comment. The general conditions would be the use of Google’s own payment system all require in-app payments and Google wouldn’t intensified hunting to developers that this condition violate. In the past, would also all apps from the Android Market are removed because of a violation of the policy.