Oh well. I've been saying this for years, and it's as difficult as ever to deal with Bitcoin...I'm trying to pull some fiat out now which is a nightmare...and putting me in a bad mood.
Why? I've been doing the majority of my bitcoin transactions on my android phone for well over a year now. The times that I have to type in the addresses (as opposed to just using the camera as a scanner) is somewhat annoying, but I'm confident some kind of standard will emerge there as well, in time. It's certainly no more difficult to type in an address string to buy something online at some new to me website than it is to buy something online using bitcoin; and that's also bound to get easier once browser linked wallet clients become trustworthy. I've been on commerce sites that buying with bitcoin was almost, but not quite "one click simple". I've scanned QR codes right off my monitor, and never even fired up my destop bitcoin client. In fact, my desktop client is hardly even used at all, these days. I'd be just as well to move those funds into cold storage. I'll admit that I still do the majority of my online buying using other methods than bitcoin, but that's likely to shift significantly if Amazon ever develops a payment method compatible with bitcoin.
This is the boilerplate logic on this forum:
"I have no problem with bitcoin transactions, therefore bitcoin is easy to use." Since innuendo fails so often here, i'll spell it out:
1. You've been using bitcoin for at least since you've joined this forum, i.e. 3 years. No wonder you've learned to use it. Using yourself as a yardstick is ludicrous.
2. You continue using fiat for 99% of your transactions, that's why you don't see the pitfalls of bitcoin. If you were forced to deal exclusively in bitcoin, you'd change your mind mighty quick.
3. If Amazon developed a payment system relying on Unicorn Puss [UPC], UPC transactions would be quick & simple also. It didn't, so they're not.
4. The commerce sites you've been to, where bitcoin transactions are "one click simple," were likely to be SR, SD, exchanges or scams, if statistics teach us anything. When Shaniqua sells you a burger for bitcoin, i'll pick up my ears. Till that happy day...