Apple Pay copies PayPal
Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is trying to boost Apple Pay’s popularity by taking a page beyond PayPal’s playbook. , September 13, 2016, Apple updated its os so enable Apple Pay users can pay online.
Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To use the service consumers will have to obtain the Apple Pay button on a website.
Mac desktop and laptop users should authenticate all purchases; using a pistol safe scan on an iPhone, or even a double touch on a Mac Watch. Meaning Mac users by having an Android phone will be in a hopeless situation.
Users can also get to accomplish their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported the next Mac Os; Sierra, enables customers to pay with Apple Pay without a finger print scan – after they login using an iCloud account. Since Sierra is just not yet available, it’s just as if Mac users might have to buy an iPhone to look shopping on the web.
Or they can only use PayPal; which doesn’t need a fingerprint, or their charge card. One must wonder why anybody would work with 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 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’s unlikely that either ones are certain to get around the Apple Pay bandwagon in the near future.
Venmo Meet Siri
It appears to be if Apple Pay isn’t a serious threat to PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL). Instead PayPal is in fact expanding to Apple; its’ Venmo money-transfer app is now 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 this will happen.
It seems to be if PayPal and not Apple could be the desolate man on the internet and social networking payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to keep a niche product. One has to ponder whether because of this PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.
Apple Pay Visiting Japan, Russia and New Zealand
It looks as if there may be a larger niche for Apple Pay beyond your US when compared to its home country. A theory Tim Cook appears to accept; Fortune reported that Apple has plans to roll Apple Fork out in Japan, Russia and New Zealand this fall.