Apple Pay copies PayPal
Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is attempting to increase Apple Pay’s popularity by taking a website from PayPal’s playbook. On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Apple updated its os so enable Apple Pay users will pay on websites.
Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To utilize the service consumers will need to find the Apple Pay button on a website.
Mac desktop and laptop users will need to authenticate all purchases; with a finger marks scan by using an iPhone, or possibly a double discuss a Mac Watch. Which means Mac users having an Android phone is going to be in a hopeless situation.
Users may also have to complete their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported how the next Mac Main system; Sierra, enables visitors to pay with Apple Pay without having a finger print scan – if they login with an iCloud account. Since Sierra isn’t yet available, it’s as though Mac users might have to buy an iPhone to go internet shopping.
Or they are able to only use PayPal; which doesn’t need a fingerprint, or their plastic card. You have to wonder why anybody would make use of 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 look at Apple Pay will be the second largest online general merchandise retailer in the usa: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their very own payment solutions it is unlikely that either of these are certain to get for the Apple Pay bandwagon in the near future.
Venmo Meet Siri
It looks as if Apple Pay is very little 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 even say hey Siri send Joe $30 and it will happen.
It appears to be if PayPal and never Apple may be the way ahead for on the web and social media marketing payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to keep a niche market product. One must ponder whether which means PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.
Apple Pay Going to Japan, Russia and New Zealand
It appears to be if there might be a more impressive niche for Apple Pay outside the US when compared to its home country. A theory Tim Cook appears to agree with; Fortune reported that Apple has plans to roll Apple Shell out in Japan, Russia and Nz this fall.