Originally Posted by
ronnyk
I am not sure it will have any affect on AP as we know it, as that service is intended to facilitate direct payments from one party to another on a per-transaction basis (and which provides Amazon a potential upside in that the receiving party can instantly take payment in the form of Amazon credit). It sounds like the new push is to have Amazon be the payment backbone for subscription-based services.
At the outset, one possible 'new' MS opportunity would be if a 3rd party transaction going to Amazon's new payment system would count for Amazon credit card's 3% back.