Apple Pay copies PayPal
Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is wanting to increase Apple Pay’s popularity by taking a page away from PayPal’s playbook. , September 13, 2016, Apple updated its os so enable Apple Pay users pays online on a website.
Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To make use of the service consumers will have to get the Apple Pay button on-line.
Mac desktop and laptop users will need to authenticate all purchases; having a finger marks scan on an iPhone, or even a double discuss a Mac Watch. Which means Mac users with the Android phone will probably be in a hopeless situation.
Users may also have to complete 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 print scan – if they login with an iCloud account. Since Sierra just isn’t yet available, it appears as if Mac users might have to buy an iPhone to go online shopping.
Or they can only use PayPal; which doesn’t need a fingerprint, or their bank card. One has to wonder why anybody would make use of Apple’s payment solution.
Another major drawback is that many major websites; such as biggest name in US online retail Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), still don’t take Apple Pay. Also refusing to look at Apple Pay could be the second largest online general merchandise retailer in the United States: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their very own payment solutions it’s unlikely that either of these are certain to get around the Apple Pay bandwagon anytime soon.
Venmo Meet Siri
It appears to be if Apple Pay isn’t a serious threat to PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL). Instead PayPal is definitely expanding to Apple; its’ Venmo money-transfer app is integrated with iOS 10.
That means Venmo users can send money using Siri and iMessage, Venmo’s blog claimed. A Venmo user may even say hey Siri send Joe $30 and will also happen.
It seems to be if PayPal and not Apple may be the way forward for online and social websites payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to stay a market product. You have to wonder if because of this PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.
Apple Pay Coming to Japan, Russia and New Zealand
It seems to be if there might be a larger industry for Apple Pay beyond your US when compared to its home country. A theory Tim Cook seems to accept; Fortune reported that Apple has promises to roll Apple Spend in Japan, Russia and Nz this fall.