Apple Pay copies PayPal
Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is attempting to raise Apple Pay’s popularity through a site from PayPal’s playbook. , 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 will have to find the Apple Pay button on a website.
Mac desktop and laptop users should authenticate all purchases; having a finger marks scan with an iPhone, or a double touch on a Mac Watch. Which means Mac users having an Android phone will probably be at a complete loss.
Users will also have to do their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported the next Mac Main system; Sierra, allows customers to pay with Apple Pay without having a finger marks scan – once they login via an iCloud account. Since Sierra is not yet available, it looks as if Mac users may need to buy an iPhone to visit internet shopping.
Or they could exclusively use PayPal; which doesn’t require a fingerprint, or their plastic card. One must wonder why anybody would bother with Apple’s payment solution.
Another major drawback is the fact 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 take Apple Pay will be the second largest online general merchandise retailer in the usa: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their particular payment solutions it can be unlikely that either of them is certain to get on 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 really 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 even say hey Siri send Joe $30 and will also happen.
It seems to be if PayPal and never Apple would be the way forward for online and social websites payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to stay a niche market product. One has to ponder whether which means that PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.
Apple Pay Going to Japan, Russia and New Zealand
It appears to be if there may be a greater industry for Apple Pay outside the US when compared to its home country. A theory Tim Cook generally seems to accept; Fortune reported that Apple has promises to roll Apple Shell out in Japan, Russia and New Zealand this fall.
