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.
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.
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.
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)