It should also be a well known and trusted system. Unfortunately, the only one I know is PayPal, which is not that great for micro-payment. But it's better than nothing and many users already have a PayPal account, so it's fairly fast to use.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 15:58, Andrew Flegg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 13:35, Aldon Hynes <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> That said, there are lots of issues that such a system would run into, as >> the N900 is distributed in many different countries with many different >> payment systems and for that matter, many different tax laws. My gut >> feeling is that connecting to existing micropayment systems, particularly, >> perhaps some related to the gaming industry, might be a good way of doing >> this. > > Do you know of any global-micropayment systems which have a simple > API? The only one I'm really aware of is PayPal (which is slightly > more macro- than "proper" micropayments). Having a system which allows > you to redirect to a page to "send money to this email address" means > that maemo.org is entirely out-of-the-loop. Meaning, at least, the > community as a whole & maemo.org don't have to worry about the > tax/legal implications (IMHO). > > Cheers, > > Andrew > > -- > Andrew Flegg -- mailto:[email protected] | http://www.bleb.org/ > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
