Apple Pay copies PayPal
Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is attempting to raise Apple Pay’s popularity by subtracting a page from PayPal’s playbook. , September 13, 2016, Apple updated its os’s so enable Apple Pay users will probably pay on websites.
Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To use the service consumers will need to find the Apple Pay button on-line.
Mac desktop and laptop users should authenticate all purchases; using a pistol safe scan by using an iPhone, or even a double touch on a Mac Watch. This means Mac users with an Android phone will likely be in a hopeless situation.
Users can also get to perform their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported that the next Mac Operating System; Sierra, enables customers to pay with Apple Pay without a finger print scan – once they login using an iCloud account. Since Sierra isn’t yet available, it seems like Mac users may need to buy an iPhone to go internet shopping.
Or they can exclusively use PayPal; which does not need a fingerprint, or their charge card. You have to wonder why anybody would bother with Apple’s payment solution.
Another major drawback is always that many major websites; like the biggest name in US online retail Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), still don’t take Apple Pay. Also refusing to consider Apple Pay may be the second largest online general merchandise retailer in the us: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their particular payment solutions it really is unlikely that either ones can get on the Apple Pay bandwagon anytime soon.
Venmo Meet Siri
It seems to be if Apple Pay isn’t a serious threat to PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL). Instead PayPal is really expanding to Apple; its’ Venmo money-transfer app has become integrated with iOS 10.
That means Venmo users can send money using Siri and iMessage, Venmo’s blog claimed. A Venmo user can also say hey Siri send Joe $30 and this will happen.
It appears to be if PayPal instead of Apple would be the future of on the internet and social websites payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to remain a market product. One must wonder if which means that PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.
Apple Pay Going to Japan, Russia and New Zealand
It looks as if there may be a larger marketplace for Apple Pay outside of the US in comparison to its home country. A theory Tim Cook generally seems to go along with; Fortune reported that Apple has offers to roll Apple Pay out in Japan, Russia and Nz this fall.