Google realized Google Pay and Google Wallet are the same thing, so it’s getting rid of one of them
by Richard Lawler from The Verge - All Posts on (#6JVDN)
Illustration: The Verge Google Wallet was the company's first attempt at enabling money transfers on Android with the Nexus S 4G, and no matter how many apps Google launches, it will seemingly always be around. Google Pay tried to replace both Google Wallet and Android Pay a few years ago, but in a few months, Google Pay will be gone, with Google Wallet back on top.
Android Pay popped up in 2015 as a temporary tap-to-pay king, while Google Wallet was recast as a Cash App / Venmo rival, but even when Google changed its mind and combined them, it couldn't keep itself from messing with the formula again and again.
Image: Google Google Pay (2020).Don't even ask me about that 2020 revamp that pulled Google Pay Send's peer-to-peer...