Official line
Wallet features retired; payments consolidated.
Amazon · Commerce · Product
Amazon Wallet
Discontinued
2014–2015 · 1 year in market
Launched
Oct 1, 2014
Discontinued
Nov 1, 2015
Cause of death
Lost to a competitor
Evidence
Unsourced
What was it?
A mobile payments wallet Amazon tried before Amazon Pay settled into checkout.
Why it died
Editorial reading
Apple Pay and Google Wallet owned the lock screen. Amazon owned the buy button on amazon.com — and that was enough.
Founder takeaway
A wallet without a default place in the OS is a settings screen.
Sources
Unsourced — editorial reading
No primary source is attached yet. Treat the interpretation as editorial, not a citation.
What replaced it
Amazon
Amazon Pay
Checkout, not a consumer wallet app.
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