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According to this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/lztb4f/the_new_google_pay_repeats_all_the_same_mistakes/gq497ik/ https://www.reddit.com/r/A

According to this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/lztb4f/the_new_google_pay_repeats_all_the_same_mistakes/gq497ik/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/lztb4f/the_new_goo... > (...) The old GP and the new GP were totally different teams, not even operating out of the same country (old GP was based in SF, USA - new was based out of Singapore). Around fall of 2018 the Singapore team was given complete control over all of Payments at Google due to the success of their app in India. The US based team was completely powerless and had to watch heartbroken as it was decided to shut down their product, the one they had been working on for 10ish years, in favor of the new GP. (...)

dmix 6y ago
It's fun to joke about it but it's much sadder hearing a real developer talk about it IRL. Someone whose team worked on the previous Google Pay project for 10yrs(!). Thanks for the link.
- glogla 6y ago
  I mean they still got hundreds of thousands of dollars for it.
  - dmix 6y ago
    The picture in the article is literally money being flushed down a toilet lol. But yes we all get paid, almost always whether the software (or product) is good or bad or useful to the world.