Apple Pay copies PayPal
Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is attempting to raise Apple Pay’s popularity through a site beyond PayPal’s playbook. On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Apple updated its os so enable Apple Pay users pays online on a website.
Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To work with the service consumers will need to obtain the Apple Pay button online.
Mac desktop and laptop users will have to authenticate all purchases; with a pistol safe scan with an iPhone, or perhaps a double talk about a Mac Watch. Meaning Mac users with the Android phone will probably be out of luck.
Users will also have to accomplish their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported that the next Mac Os; Sierra, allows people to pay with Apple Pay with out a finger print scan – after they login via an iCloud account. Since Sierra isn’t yet available, it looks as if Mac users may need to buy an iPhone to visit internet shopping.
Or they’re able to just use PayPal; which does not need a fingerprint, or their credit card. One must wonder why anybody would work with Apple’s payment solution.
Another major drawback is always that many major websites; such as the biggest name in US online retail Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), still don’t take Apple Pay. Also refusing to look at Apple Pay could be the second largest online general merchandise retailer in america: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their very own payment solutions it’s unlikely that either of these can get around the Apple Pay bandwagon in the near future.
Venmo Meet Siri
It seems to be if Apple Pay isn’t a serious threat to PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL). Instead PayPal is actually expanding to Apple; its’ Venmo money-transfer app has become integrated with iOS 10.
That means Venmo users can send money using Siri and iMessage, Venmo’s blog claimed. A Venmo user can even say hey Siri send Joe $30 and it will happen.
It seems to be if PayPal instead of Apple could be the way forward for online and social websites payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to remain a niche market product. One has to wonder if because of this PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.
Apple Pay Arriving at Japan, Russia and New Zealand
It seems to be if there may be a bigger marketplace for Apple Pay beyond your US in comparison to its home country. A theory Tim Cook appears to accept; Fortune reported that Apple has offers to roll Apple Pay out in Japan, Russia and Nz this fall.