I don't know about anyone else but I only ever use Amazon Payments in Cydia because of limitations in Cydia.
I would prefer to use PayPal but because Cydia doesn't allow for proper backgrounding, auto-login/password saving for PayPal accounts, or auto-login/password saving for saving Cydia accounts, I get stuck in a situation where I need to pull two generated passwords (IE, so complex I would never even try to commit them to memory.) from 1Password. One for my Cydia account (via Google), one for my PayPal account.
Swap to 1Password, pull one, swap to Cydia, login, swap out again, pull my PayPal password, and the payment flow is lost and I'm logged out of my Cydia account.
I'm sure there are reasonable technical excuses for all of this but I figured it was worth mentioning. This may not be a very common use-case but I'm sure the basics of "I use Amazon on Cydia because I can pre-authorize $50 and not have to re-enter my password every time" apply to many people.
Yay! In fact, PayPal now offers that same "leave details on file" feature, but an even more powerful version; I intend to have that integrated before I'd make drastic changes. (Also, of course, do something about the back grounding thing. Woah, and a really simple fix for that just hit me: almost all of the critical "let this background" requests come up while inside of the login and payment flow... I can easily make that part background!)
Awesome, that's great to hear. Nice to see you're still excited by the Cydia project. I've had gripes with it in the past but your enthusiasm gives me hope.
I would prefer to use PayPal but because Cydia doesn't allow for proper backgrounding, auto-login/password saving for PayPal accounts, or auto-login/password saving for saving Cydia accounts, I get stuck in a situation where I need to pull two generated passwords (IE, so complex I would never even try to commit them to memory.) from 1Password. One for my Cydia account (via Google), one for my PayPal account.
Swap to 1Password, pull one, swap to Cydia, login, swap out again, pull my PayPal password, and the payment flow is lost and I'm logged out of my Cydia account.
I'm sure there are reasonable technical excuses for all of this but I figured it was worth mentioning. This may not be a very common use-case but I'm sure the basics of "I use Amazon on Cydia because I can pre-authorize $50 and not have to re-enter my password every time" apply to many people.