Can you explain more why *Checkout* is a major issue? From a buyer's perspective, they are just using their credit card and to enter that information, they need to provide address and credit-card details. Presumably, they already have gmail. Once they enter information once, the experience is actually fairly smooth for all future transactions.
The buyer experience would have been the same if there was NO checkout logo there, but a direct way to provide credit-card details. In fact, it would have been worse since they would have had to enter their address and credit card details each time they purchased something. If PayPal was available as an option, the Buyer's experience is probably slightly improved. I say slightly because I think it is still a fairly small percentage of people who have PayPal accounts (and care to use them) compared to having a credit-cards. But again, we are not talking about hugely improved buyer experience. I agree that the best experience is if they could just place it on their phone bill. Inder On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 8:45 AM, JP <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sure we're going around in circles here. Selected issues get fixed, > but there's too many potholes in the street without an evident effort > to get them fixed. I agree with OP that Checkout *is* a major issue. > In the end user's eyes, this is yet another online account to think > about without evident benefit over comparable services that > everybody's signed up to already (CC, PayPal, ahem). Instead Android > Market get's Checkout shoved down the throat, all the while other > product lines at Google focus on any smartphone but Android, it seems > (yeah we talked about that, too). > > Google I/O's coming up. Personally, I hope that Android will get a > push there. We receive great support from engineers in these forums > and the Android blog, but there's just too many unanswered questions. > Frankly, I expect some decision makers will show and speak to things > in a candid way and show to the public where this ship is heading. Not > that it's on the agenda or anything, but that's just what I chose to > expect. Because it's the easiest and obvious thing to do to keep this > ship floating until things have been sorted out. If they can't even > get off the dime with such simple things, I'd say there's little hope > they'll be able fix the problems at hand and those that lie ahead. > > > > On Apr 25, 8:01 am, KonstantinDK <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ya,ya,ya. We know know that. YOu are right, but It's not new news. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
