Apple Pay copies PayPal
Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is attempting to raise Apple Pay’s popularity by subtracting a webpage away from PayPal’s playbook. On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Apple updated its os so enable Apple Pay users will pay on websites online.
Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To use the service consumers should find the Apple Pay button on-line.
Mac desktop and laptop users will need to authenticate all purchases; with a finger marks scan with an iPhone, or a double touch on a Mac Watch. That means Mac users by having an Android phone will probably be out of luck.
Users may also have to do their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported how the next Mac Os; Sierra, allows people to pay with Apple Pay with no finger marks scan – once they login with an iCloud account. Since Sierra is just not yet available, it looks as though Mac users may need to buy an iPhone to visit internet shopping.
Or they can only use PayPal; which does not need a fingerprint, or their bank card. One must wonder why anybody would use Apple’s payment solution.
Another major drawback is always 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 us: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their very own payment solutions it can be unlikely that either of these is certain to get around the Apple Pay bandwagon soon.
Venmo Meet Siri
It appears 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 even say hey Siri send Joe $30 and this will happen.
It looks as if PayPal and not Apple could be the desolate man web social networking payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to be a distinct segment product. One must ponder whether this means that PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.
Apple Pay Coming to Japan, Russia and New Zealand
It seems to be if there may be a greater marketplace for Apple Pay away from US when compared to its home country. A theory Tim Cook seems to trust; Fortune reported that Apple has offers to roll Apple Fork out in Japan, Russia and Nz this fall.