Alright even though this is some /r/conspiracy shit

Google Pay is a behavioral experiment.

Google seperated the money sharing and payment functions into two different apps so people wouldn't stop using Google Wallet, because they thought they might lose a lot of users if they retained the functionality of both in one app, but suddenly told root users they could no longer make NFC payments.

If you take existing functionality away from users they see it as a direct violation of their perceived rights, but if you spin a function off into a separate entity and take away that functionality in the new entity, they're just fine with it.

AFAIK Android Pay is used to make purchases in stores with your credit card. Google Wallet is basically Google's PayPal. Google Wallet is great for sending money to a friend or to make an online payment. Android Pay is great if you're at McDonalds. Two different purposes. I have no idea if Google Wallet was ever capable of replacing your credit card but if it was, maybe that's why they rebranded?

But just so you know root users are very much allowed to use Android Pay. Google is not against Root. Google is against modifications to the core Android System. Root methods will need to adapt which surprise they did as Systemless root now exists.

Everything else you say is immediately going to the worst case scenario. Oh Google is not allowing root that modifies the system, before you know it we'll have to drink verification cans.

Also everyone knows they use your data. No one here is naive enough to think they do it for free. That and the second operating system thing is completely irrelevant. You're twisting this no modified system thing beyond proportions.