Google announced web payments integration for Android Pay using the Web Payments API last month. Just like Apple Pay for the web, nobody is using it now, but it's on the Chrome roadmap.
So therefore it's a question of whether Google or Apple get to muscle their way to influencing the eventual W3C standard, by deploying a pre-standard implementation. Same difference in my view. Yet somehow Apple is smacked down for it?
If by same difference you mean "one is being developed in the open, with editors from Microsoft, Firefox, and Facebook and the other was developed in private and has the company's name in the API"... then yes, same difference.
