Apple Pay copies PayPal
Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is intending to improve Apple Pay’s popularity if you take a page from PayPal’s playbook. On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Apple updated its systems so enable Apple Pay users will pay online on a website.
Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To use the service consumers should discover the Apple Pay button on a website.
Mac desktop and laptop users must authenticate all purchases; which has a pistol safe scan with an iPhone, or possibly a double touch on a Mac Watch. Meaning Mac users by having an Android phone will probably be doomed.
Users will also gain to complete their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported that the next Mac Main system; Sierra, allows customers to pay with Apple Pay with out a finger print scan – as long as they login through an iCloud account. Since Sierra isn’t yet available, it seems just as if Mac users may need to buy an iPhone to visit internet shopping.
Or they can just use PayPal; which does not require a fingerprint, or their charge card. One has to wonder why anybody would bother with Apple’s payment solution.
Another major drawback is 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 could be the second largest online general merchandise retailer in america: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their own payment solutions it can be unlikely that either ones are certain to get about the Apple Pay bandwagon any time soon.
Venmo Meet Siri
It appears to be if Apple Pay is not a serious threat to PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL). Instead PayPal is actually 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 this will happen.
It seems to be if PayPal and not Apple would be the way forward for web social websites payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to remain a market product. One has to ponder whether which means that PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.
Apple Pay Visiting Japan, Russia and New Zealand
It looks as if there can be a larger industry for Apple Pay away from US than in its home country. A theory Tim Cook generally seems to trust; Fortune reported that Apple has plans to roll Apple Pay out in Japan, Russia and Nz this fall.