Google Play just opened Pandora’s box: You can now bug your friends to pay for you
Google Play's "Ask someone to pay" button is rolling out in the US.
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- Google is expanding its “Ask someone to pay” feature for the Play Store.
- Users in the US, Japan, Mexico, and Indonesia will now have access to the feature.
- This option allows you to ask someone outside of your Google family group to pay for a transaction.
Google I/O has been chock-full of announcements, ranging from Android Auto to Wear OS and everything in between. While a majority of the reveals have been AI-related, there has been plenty of news that’s not related to AI. One such announcement shares that a new payment method is coming to the Google Play Store.
Google’s marketplace offers a variety of ways to pay for an app or an in-app item, whether it’s through PayPal, credit card, a code redemption, or some other method. Last year, it introduced a new way to pay that lets you hand over the bill to someone else. At the time of rollout, this payment method was only available in India. But now, it’s expanding to more markets.
