Apple Pay copies PayPal
Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is wanting to increase Apple Pay’s popularity by taking a site beyond PayPal’s playbook. On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Apple updated its os so enable Apple Pay users will pay online.
Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To use the service consumers will need to discover the Apple Pay button on-line.
Mac desktop and laptop users should authenticate all purchases; having a finger marks scan by using an iPhone, or perhaps a double touch on a Mac Watch. Which means Mac users with the Android phone will probably be out of luck.
Users can also get to do their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported that this next Mac Operating System; Sierra, allows visitors to pay with Apple Pay without a finger marks scan – as long as they login with an iCloud account. Since Sierra isn’t yet available, it looks just as if Mac users may need to buy an apple iphone to visit shopping online.
Or they could don’t use anything but PayPal; which doesn’t require a fingerprint, or their bank card. You have to wonder why anybody would use Apple’s payment solution.
Another major drawback is that many major websites; such as the biggest name in US online retail Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), still don’t take Apple Pay. Also refusing to adopt Apple Pay will be the second largest online general merchandise retailer in the United States: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their own payment solutions it can be unlikely that either of which are certain to get around the Apple Pay bandwagon anytime soon.
Venmo Meet Siri
It appears to be if Apple Pay is not an serious threat to PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL). Instead PayPal is really 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 can even say hey Siri send Joe $30 and it’ll happen.
It looks as if PayPal and not Apple might be the desolate man on the web and social websites payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to stay a niche product. One must wonder if because of this PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.
Apple Pay Going to Japan, Russia and New Zealand
It looks as if there might be a greater marketplace for Apple Pay away from US in comparison to its home country. A theory Tim Cook generally seems to go along with; Fortune reported that Apple has intends to roll Apple Pay out in Japan, Russia and Nz this fall.