It was a possibility that had been raised for several months, according to what had been learned. We talked about the option that Google would integrate between the choices for billing purchases made in its content store for smartphones "" before Android Market and now Google Play Store "". Although the main means for the payment of the applications, games, movies, music or books available on the platform was done through Google Checkout ”” the native system for online payments of the Mountain View firm itself"", These days the firm is opening the fork so that the user can select other routes. Specifically, the experience has begun through the invoice of the operator with which the client works.
In this way, instead of paying the payment of the content immediately with a charge to the account that is linked to Google Checkout, the user could configure their data to channel the costs through the invoice that, month by month, our operator sends us. With this, all the contents that we downloaded would reach us in a single charge together with our voice and data consumption, centralizing the payment, which can be understood as a solution aimed at comfort or as a way to make the user Get excited by downloading resources to your phone to be surprised by the bundled subscription when the bill arrives.
The first company that has been linked to this option with Google Play in Spain has been the British-based operator Vodafone. The red signature points to this formula of direct billing, although at the moment there is no news of the deadlines that the rest of the operators in our country would have marked to join this way of settling accounts with Google every time we download games, apps, rental movies or e-books.
With this, the user is freed from the need to provide as part of their data the numbering of a credit or debit card that is linked to their profile, which plays in favor of greater security of sensitive information. At this time, six countries, including Spain, have agreed to launch this system through various operators: the United States, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom. Eleven are the operators that have accepted the billing formula through the company's account with the client.
Last March, Google chose to modify the identity of its mobile download platform, formerly known as Android Market and now titled Google Play. The idea was to concentrate a series of additional services that would give it a greater portal aspect, where you can not only get applications and games, but also movies, books and music "" at least, in markets where all options are available ””.
