Gmail, Contacts, Assistant and Messages apps no longer support sending money

Is Google Pay new in the rest of the world? It has been very successful in India as a UPI-based payment method.<p>India has gotten aggressively cashless (at least in cities) and Google Pay definitely rode that wave here.

Genuinely surprised to hear that any of those apps ever supported payments in the first place. Not that this excuses sunsetting a feature that people depended on (It&#x27;s The Google Way!), but...

I clicked the &quot;Learn how to send money to friends&quot; link and the first step is to &quot;Open the Google Pay app&quot;<p>You lost me right there Google. I already have your Gmail app to send money and now you are taking functionality away from it and making me download another of your apps.

I loved the idea that you could attach money to an email just like you could attach a file. The Gmail interface was perfect, but unfortunately as usual Google messed up the implementation.

Didn&#x27;t know you could in the first place.

Maybe I&#x27;m old-fashioned, but what&#x27;s wrong with using a bank to send money? Not in US, so I don&#x27;t even know if that&#x27;s another one of those things you can&#x27;t do like having to still use cheques

Clamping down on international funding of terrorism, and election integrity.

Damn<p>Sending money thru gmail was the best way to send money.

Calculated monopolistic move.

I have switched to Outlook.com for my main private business email and protonmail for emailing friends.<p>Will back out of Google slowly over the next 5 years. The countdown has started.

I assume this is related to the other Google post today[1], wherein the moderators are accused of gaslighting their customers instead of responding appropriately.<p>Not sure of the context here, so I&#x27;ll let better informed voices prevail, I guess.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23969442" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23969442</a>