Now several companies, including Google, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, are trying to bridge the gap between mobile browsing and desktop purchasing with a simple “buy” button.
Buy buttons have been around since the early days of the Web, of course, notably with Amazon’s “One-Click Ordering,” where people set up a button that runs their credit card and ships whatever they have bought to a designated address.
But these new buy buttons allow technology companies to act as middlemen between mobile shoppers and retailers — eliminating aggravating typing on a phone’s touch screen and extending one-click ordering to thousands of small retailers....
The way we use the internet has changed. We are now mobile internet users and everything is done for us to be able to act the way we were acting before on a PC on our smartphones.