Google Exerts Pressure For The Use Of Its Own Payment Service

Online, March 14, 2012 (Newswire.com) - According to the Reuters, Google is exerting pressure to its application developers, requiring them to use its payment service Google Wallet instead of other payment services of other companies.

Google requires the application and game developers to use the payment services of itself rather than that of the competitors such as PayPal, GB and Boku. And if not, the developer's application will be taken off the shelf from the Android Marketplace. Last Tuesday, Google changed the name of Android Marketplace to Google Play.

Google says that this is not the company's new policy. Although some developers ignore this provision, Google has consistently called for the application developers to use its payment services.

The policy of Android Market developer requires the developers who charge for the applications to use the services of the official payment services. Obviously, "the official payment service" is Google Wallet, but it is not clear it is regulated in the Google policy site. However, Google said that there is no change as to the requirements of developers' payment. And another spokesman of Google also said that "there is no change in our policy".

The difficulties application developers meets is that Google does not audit prior to the release of the application. This is quite different from Apple for Apple will have a strict scrutiny for the applications the developers submit.

A developer received Google's notification letter last summer, requiring the developer to modify its applications in 30days, otherwise the application will be temporarily blocked. There is also the news saying that Papaya's social games used to use the payment services of PayPal and GlobeBill (http://www.globebill.com), but now it turns to use Google Wallet for the pressure from Google. At present, Google is a publicly traded company that handles one of the most used search engines in the world, with a stock price that was originally the highest in its class.