Apple Pay copies PayPal
Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is intending to raise Apple Pay’s popularity by taking a page out of PayPal’s playbook. , September 13, 2016, Apple updated its os’s so enable Apple Pay users can pay on websites online.
Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To work with the service consumers will need to get the Apple Pay button on-line.
Mac desktop and laptop users will have to authenticate all purchases; using a finger marks scan while on an iPhone, or a double talk about a Mac Watch. That means Mac users having an Android phone is going to be at a complete loss.
Users can also get to do their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported the next Mac Os; Sierra, will allow customers to pay with Apple Pay without having a finger print scan – once they login using an iCloud account. Since Sierra isn’t yet available, it appears just as if Mac users may need to buy an iPhone to look online shopping.
Or they could just use PayPal; which doesn’t need a fingerprint, or their bank card. One has to 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 consider Apple Pay may 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 really is unlikely that either of these will get about the Apple Pay bandwagon soon.
Venmo Meet Siri
It appears to be if Apple Pay is not a serious threat to PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL). Instead PayPal is in fact 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’ll happen.
It seems to be if PayPal instead of Apple might be the way ahead for on the web and social websites payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to be a niche product. You have to ponder whether this means that PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.
Apple Pay Visiting Japan, Russia and New Zealand
It appears to be if there may be a greater market for Apple Pay away from US compared to its home country. A theory Tim Cook usually trust; Fortune reported that Apple has promises to roll Apple Pay out in Japan, Russia and New Zealand this fall.