They may well have done for legal reasons, but the point for consumers was that you could find a product in a web page and hit purchase, and the cost would just show up as a line item in your phone bill, without any signups or credit card numbers.
Similar deal with NFC payments. They launched here in 2004, and were fairly widespread by the time smartphones arrived. It used to be very common for people to move "up" to a smartphone and then be surprised to find out how many features they'd given up.
Similar deal with NFC payments. They launched here in 2004, and were fairly widespread by the time smartphones arrived. It used to be very common for people to move "up" to a smartphone and then be surprised to find out how many features they'd given up.