Apple Pay copies PayPal
Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is intending to boost Apple Pay’s popularity if you take a page beyond PayPal’s playbook. , September 13, 2016, Apple updated its operating systems so enable Apple Pay users will probably pay on websites.
Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To make use of the service consumers should obtain the Apple Pay button online.
Mac desktop and laptop users will have to authenticate all purchases; with a finger marks scan by using an iPhone, or possibly a double touch on a Mac Watch. This means Mac users by having an Android phone will probably be doomed.
Users can also get to perform their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported how the next Mac Operating System; Sierra, enables visitors to pay with Apple Pay without having a finger marks scan – after they login with an iCloud account. Since Sierra just isn’t yet available, it looks just as if Mac users may need to buy an iPhone to go internet shopping.
Or they are able to only use PayPal; which doesn’t require a fingerprint, or their charge card. One must wonder why anybody would use Apple’s payment solution.
Another major drawback is many major websites; like the biggest name in US online retail Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), still don’t take Apple Pay. Also refusing to take Apple Pay could be the second largest online general merchandise retailer in the usa: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their own payment solutions it is unlikely that either of which can get on the Apple Pay bandwagon soon.
Venmo Meet Siri
It seems to be if Apple Pay is very little serious threat to PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL). Instead PayPal is actually 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 also say hey Siri send Joe $30 and it will happen.
It seems to be if PayPal instead of Apple may be the way ahead for on the web and social media payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to stay a niche product. One must ponder whether which means that PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.
Apple Pay Visiting Japan, Russia and New Zealand
It looks as if there may be a larger industry for Apple Pay outside the US when compared to its home country. A theory Tim Cook generally seems to go along with; Fortune reported that Apple has plans to roll Apple Shell out in Japan, Russia and Nz this fall.