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Can Amazon be the default payment API for the Web?

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10 pointsAaronChua14 comments

From 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.

I 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.

Doesn't almost everyone have a Paypal account?

I don't :)

No, 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. :)

Thanks 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.

Has 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.

Smells like a blogspammer. http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=AaronChua

Why is it bad practice to submit your own blogs? If you have something interesting to say, people will vote them up.

I'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)

If you have something interesting to say, someone else will submit it.

Unless you don't already have readers from HN.

Sorry if what I did is something against the community rules.

I thought that Hacker News has a pretty solid filtering system so that only interesting articles get floated to the top. If my article was irrelevant, it will stay unnoticed and not affect the front page.

My intention was not to spam but to invite relevant discussions. I did nothing more than submit my article and let the community decide its relevance.

Amazon the future of payments? Ha! Not until their payment products are available to companies based outside the U.S.

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