Apple Pay copies PayPal
Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is wanting to increase Apple Pay’s popularity if you take a site out of PayPal’s playbook. , September 13, 2016, Apple updated its systems 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 must get 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. Which means Mac users by having an Android phone will be in a hopeless situation.
Users may also have to do their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported that the 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 is just not yet available, it’s as though Mac users might have to buy an apple iphone to look shopping online.
Or they can just 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 the fact 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 look at 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 unique payment solutions it is unlikely that either of these can get on the Apple Pay bandwagon in the near future.
Venmo Meet Siri
It looks as if Apple Pay is very little serious threat to PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL). Instead PayPal is in fact 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 this will happen.
It appears to be if PayPal rather than Apple could be the way forward for web social media payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to remain a market product. You have to wonder if which means that PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.
Apple Pay Coming to Japan, Russia and New Zealand
It appears to be if there could be a bigger industry for Apple Pay beyond your US in comparison to its home country. A theory Tim Cook seems to go along with; Fortune reported that Apple has plans to roll Apple Spend in Japan, Russia and Nz this fall.