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How many people do you think will go through the trouble of signing up for an account and giving x publisher their credit card for a 25 cent purchase though?

• towaway15463 4y ago
  The general idea with micro transactions is that you have some small number of service providers that you use to pay the individual retailers with. You know like how credit cards work.
  • MontyCarloHall 4y ago
    And that’s the real reason micropayments haven’t caught on—there is no universal one-click payment system for the web. Every payment processor requires at least one redirection away from the content at hand. A micropayment transaction needs to be as easy as clicking “Continue {Reading,Watching,Listening}” and the content resumes without skipping a beat.
    • towaway15463 4y ago
      Sounds like a solvable problem
      • MontyCarloHall 4y ago
        Indeed, so why doesn’t it exist yet?
    • interestica 4y ago
      I mean Apple and Google have prepared users for it with the mechanism built into apps when someone wants to upgrade to a premium version or add a subscription. I think the lowest I've seen is 99c but a smaller micropayment using the same system/interface is simple.