+Shogan 将軍 George it doesn't matter if Google made it first. If someone invented a car that runs on farts but it was made in a redneck's garage and never released to a wider population it means jack to the world. The company that is able to pull all the strings against the odds (banks, government and their rules and legislations) should be prised here (in this case apple and Samsung).
Just think about it.
Google released wallet 6 years ago, in a backboards country (the USA) where everyone still swipes their credit cards.
Instead they could have release it in Europe where payment methods are more secure (chip and pin), where nfc terminals were introduced before the cards became available, where it would take one country to approve of nfc payments via phone and the rest would follow....
But no Google is that stupid incapable company that is not willing to invest bit more in order to benefit in a long run
