Apple Pay copies PayPal
Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is intending to increase Apple Pay’s popularity through a site 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 make use of the service consumers must find the Apple Pay button on-line.
Mac desktop and laptop users must authenticate all purchases; using a finger print scan by using an iPhone, or a double discuss a Mac Watch. That means Mac users having an Android phone will likely be in a hopeless situation.
Users will also gain to accomplish their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported that the next Mac Operating System; Sierra, will allow visitors to pay with Apple Pay with no finger print scan – once they login with an iCloud account. Since Sierra is not yet available, it looks like Mac users may need to buy an apple iphone to travel online shopping.
Or they can just use PayPal; which doesn’t need a fingerprint, or their bank card. One must wonder why anybody would make use of Apple’s payment solution.
Another major drawback is always that many major websites; including the biggest name in US online retail Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), still don’t take Apple Pay. Also refusing to consider Apple Pay is 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 really is unlikely that either of them can get on the Apple Pay bandwagon soon.
Venmo Meet Siri
It looks as 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 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 will also happen.
It appears to be if PayPal and never Apple may be the way ahead for on the web and social networking payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to be 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 appears to be if there can be a larger marketplace for Apple Pay outside the US compared to its home country. A theory Tim Cook usually go along with; Fortune reported that Apple has promises to roll Apple Pay out in Japan, Russia and Nz this fall.