[jfoster]

From the email: "When we launched the Chrome Web Store 11 years ago, there weren't a lot of ways for our developers to take payment from users. Today, there is a thriving ecosystem of payment providers offering a far more diverse set of features than a single provider could hope to. Now that our developers have so many great options to choose from, we can comfortably sunset our own payments integration."

My takeaway: Google products & services exist to fill a gap until there's sufficient other options. As options increase, expect Google to "comfortably sunset" their solutions.

[animationwill]

>> As options increase, expect Google to "comfortably sunset" their solutions.

Read some of the other comments here. This is anything other than “comfortably” and will create a lot of pain & churn for Both the devs and users

[jfoster]

Exactly my point. Those are, however, the words Google used in the email they sent out about this.

[skinnymuch]

Why did you quote comfortably sunset? Are you indicating that this is anything but that? It isn’t clear.

[jfoster]

I'm not personally impacted by this one, but I've been impacted by a very similar deprecation (Google Wallet for Digital Goods) by Google. Can assure you that anyone impacted by this deprecation isn't feeling comfortable about it.