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Can Amazon be the default payment API for the Web?
- kierank 17y agoFrom what I gather if you want to use Amazon's Devpay service your customers have to sign up for an amazon.com account. If they can get rid ofthat restriction like Paypal then things will be a whole lot easier.
- SamAtt 17y agoI think the author's point is that the internet needs a payment system in which the customer doesn't need to put in their credit card. That's why he's saying Amazon could be the default payment provider (since almost everyone has an Amazon account). So doing what you suggest would completely defeat the purpose of what he's proposing.
- halo 17y agoDoesn't almost everyone have a Paypal account?
- SamAtt 17y agoI don't :)
- randallsquared 17y agoNo, though it seemed like it at one time. The vast majority of people have never bought anything online, so there's lots of time for disruption in this market. :)
- AaronChua 17y agoThanks for clarifying my point. That was exactly what I meant. Having experiences in mobile services, payment was not a problem. It is something users don't even think about. However, on the Web, the act of paying is too obvious and requires too much effort.
- falsestprophet 17y agoHas anyone else noticed that low quality blog entries (like this one) are making their way to the front page much more frequently. I suspect foul play.
- teej 17y agoSmells like a blogspammer. http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=AaronChua http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=AaronChua
- physcab 17y agoWhy is it bad practice to submit your own blogs? If you have something interesting to say, people will vote them up.
- TomOfTTB 17y agoI'll admit it bothers me a bit. I don't have a problem with people who participate here submitting their blog posts but as a fairly active member of this community I'm a little offended by someone who doesn't contribute in any other way. That said I don't suspect foul play here simply because someone who was using voting bots or some other form of cheating would probably do it more often (most of this guy's post never get above 1)
- teej 17y agoIf you have something interesting to say, someone else will submit it.
- mtinkerhess 17y agoUnless you don't already have readers from HN.
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- AaronChua 17y ago
- hopeless 17y agoAmazon the future of payments? Ha! Not until their payment products are available to companies based outside the U.S.