Apple Pay copies PayPal

Apple Pay copies PayPal

Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is attempting to increase Apple Pay’s popularity if you take a site from PayPal’s playbook. On Tuesday, 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 should discover the Apple Pay button online.

Mac desktop and laptop users must authenticate all purchases; having a finger print scan with an iPhone, or a double talk about a Mac Watch. This means Mac users with the Android phone is going to be out of luck.

Users will also gain to complete their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported the next Mac Operating System; Sierra, allows people to pay with Apple Pay with out a finger marks scan – once they login with an iCloud account. Since Sierra isn’t yet available, it’s like Mac users might have to buy an apple iphone to look internet shopping.

Or they can only use PayPal; which does not require a fingerprint, or their credit card. One has to wonder why anybody would use Apple’s payment solution.

Another major drawback is that many major websites; such as biggest name in US online retail Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), still don’t take Apple Pay. Also refusing to look at Apple Pay may be the second largest online general merchandise retailer in america: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their unique payment solutions it is unlikely that either of these are certain to get about the Apple Pay bandwagon in the near future.

Venmo Meet Siri

It looks as if Apple Pay is not a serious threat to PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL). Instead PayPal is definitely expanding to Apple; its’ Venmo money-transfer app is currently integrated with iOS 10.

That means Venmo users can send money using Siri and iMessage, Venmo’s blog claimed. A Venmo user can also say hey Siri send Joe $30 and it will happen.

It appears to be if PayPal rather than Apple could be the future of online and social media payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to be a niche product. You have to wonder if because of this PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.

Apple Pay Arriving at Japan, Russia and New Zealand

It appears to be if there might be a more impressive industry for Apple Pay away from US than in its home country. A theory Tim Cook appears to go along with; Fortune reported that Apple has plans to roll Apple Pay out in Japan, Russia and Nz this fall.