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A comment on Ask HN: How do I license Amazon's 1-click tech?.

Re:Ask HN: How do I license Amazon's 1-click tech? by TomOfTTB on Sunday December 12, 2010 @06:27PM (#1998468)
I don't think you're seeing the longer game Amazon is playing here. Yes they could make a small amount of money licensing 1-click to you so you could use such a system with your user info.

But if they only offer the service through the Amazon Payment program than they get your users to use their identity system, they get a much bigger cut of each payment and they get to add info of the sale to their already massive database of user preferences.

Which is probably why they offer 1-click via Amazon Payments and no where else. (I'm not saying it's honest or that I agree but it does make sense from a profit point of view)

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Re:Ask HN: How do I license Amazon's 1-click tech? by peteforde on Sunday December 12, 2010 @06:43PM (#1998520)
If I could use Amazon as a low-level payment processor and in do so this gave me license to use a 1-click implementation (my code, not some generic JS hack) in my marketplace, I would happily be the first customer.

Unfortunately, Amazon Payments - as offered today - is simply not a fit for my platform. If they rolled out a 100% API driven payment gateway that didn't require any Amazon credentials... again, I would happily be the first customer.

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