At the Mobile Payments Conference in Chicago last month, Jack Connors, Google’s head of commerce partnerships, told attendees that Android Pay would launch “very soon.” A week later, Google announced a soft rollout of its revamped mobile wallet.
Android Pay is 100 percent focused on the merchant relationship with their customer, Connors said at the conference. By positioning the merchant as the owner of the relationship, Android Pay will leapfrog the current....