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The new Google Pay won't work with Google Apps for Your Domain / Google Enterprise / Google whatever they are accounts, which I think means my new pixel 4a will lose NFC payment capabilities soon.

I'm devastated.

I've owned virtually every Nexus/Pixel phone, and have been an android user for 10 years. When I purchased my original Motorola Droid (after standing in line outside the Verizon store in 2009) I also decided to pay for gmail via (what was then branded) Google Apps for your Domain, under the assumption that if you're paying for it, you have more control, you can move the email address away from the custom domain, etc.

I've been nothing but happy with it for 10+ years. Sure, every now and then some newly-launched google product wouldn't quite integrate well, but especially over the past 5 years or so it has been "just another google account".

When I try and install the new Google Pay, I receive an "Account not supported: Enterprise accounts are not supported on Google Pay, please sign in with a personal account" message.

I really hope this is fixed soon, or an error, or there will be some alternative. I literally have given google money at every opportunity, but soon they will take away my ability to give _other people_ money with my phone.

Sounds like it’s time for you to exercise the end-game move you smartly prepared for since day 1: move your email to a new service and begin the painful but necessary task of decoupling yourself from Google. Their suite of consumer services is a RNG at this point, not to be relied on.

I know it's not a perfect solution, but you should be able to create a Gmail account just for NFC payments.

Unless they're going to reject your credit card for being associated with another account. Which seems entirely possible, though I don't know if they will or not.

You could also get another credit card, but what a hassle.

I've given up on Google. I used to love them as a company but I've just moved on to Apple. I no longer worry about them mining every aspect of my life (phone activity) for profit and storing it off to the web which is forever. I moved my files over to icloud and my email to ProtonMail. Neither of which seem as "slick" but they're fine and more privacy oriented. I've mostly only ever used MS and Open Office so documents weren't an issue. Apple Pay works fine as well. They don't mine your purchases but I'm sure the CC sell it off to 3rd parties so not much I can do about that but switch to cash and that's not going to happen anytime soon. I had been a pixel buyer myself (since the first nexus phone). Google has lost all their luster for me.

The GSuite/Google Workspace UX on my pixel 4a has been awful. It's so painfully obvious that they do not care. Their customer service sucks too, they sold me an expensive screen protector that immediately got scratched to hell, then told me to go fuck myself because it was past the return date (because I preordered...)

Obviously I cancelled Workspaces, but now my Fi account barely works, and I don't have the time/energy to deal with their idea of customer support (a community forum...) to fix it.

That's a shame. Google Pay is really the only thing keeping me on the Stock ROM. Maybe it's a good time to move to lineage.

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