Apple Pay copies PayPal
Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is wanting to increase Apple Pay’s popularity if you take a page from PayPal’s playbook. On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Apple updated its operating systems so enable Apple Pay users pays online.
Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To use the service consumers should obtain the Apple Pay button on a website.
Mac desktop and laptop users will have to authenticate all purchases; with a pistol safe scan with an iPhone, or perhaps a double discuss a Mac Watch. Which means Mac users by having an Android phone will be out of luck.
Users will also have to perform their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported that the next Mac Operating-system; Sierra, enables visitors to pay with Apple Pay with out a finger print scan – once they login with an iCloud account. Since Sierra is not yet available, it’s as though Mac users may need to buy an iPhone to visit internet shopping.
Or they could don’t use anything but PayPal; which does not require a fingerprint, or their credit card. One has to wonder why anybody would work with 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 could be the second largest online general merchandise retailer in the us: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their own payment solutions it can be unlikely that either ones can get for the Apple Pay bandwagon in the near future.
Venmo Meet Siri
It seems 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 may also say hey Siri send Joe $30 and it’ll happen.
It looks as if PayPal and not Apple could be the way forward for web social networking payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to keep a market product. You have to ponder whether which means PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.
Apple Pay Going to Japan, Russia and New Zealand
It seems to be if there may be a bigger niche for Apple Pay away from US compared to its home country. A theory Tim Cook seems to go along with; Fortune reported that Apple has offers to roll Apple Spend in Japan, Russia and New Zealand this fall.
