Apple Pay copies PayPal
Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is wanting to increase Apple Pay’s popularity by taking a webpage out of PayPal’s playbook. On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Apple updated its os’s so enable Apple Pay users pays online on a website.
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; having a finger print scan while on an iPhone, or even a double discuss a Mac Watch. Meaning Mac users having an Android phone will be at a complete loss.
Users will also have to perform their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported that this next Mac Main system; Sierra, allows people to pay with Apple Pay without having a finger marks scan – after they login through an iCloud account. Since Sierra is just not yet available, it’s like Mac users may need to buy an iPhone to visit shopping on the web.
Or they are able to don’t use anything but PayPal; which doesn’t require a fingerprint, or their credit card. You have to wonder why anybody would work with Apple’s payment solution.
Another major drawback is always that many major websites; such as biggest name in US online retail Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), still don’t take Apple Pay. Also refusing to take Apple Pay is the second largest online general merchandise retailer in the usa: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their particular payment solutions it really is unlikely that either of which will get on the Apple Pay bandwagon soon.
Venmo Meet Siri
It looks as 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 even say hey Siri send Joe $30 and will also happen.
It appears to be if PayPal and not Apple could be the desolate man online and social media payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to be a market product. One must wonder if because of this PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.
Apple Pay Visiting Japan, Russia and New Zealand
It looks as if there could be a bigger marketplace for Apple Pay outside the US than in its home country. A theory Tim Cook usually accept; Fortune reported that Apple has plans to roll Apple Fork out in Japan, Russia and New Zealand this fall.