Apple Pay copies PayPal
Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is trying to raise Apple Pay’s popularity by taking a webpage out of PayPal’s playbook. On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Apple updated its os’s so enable Apple Pay users pays on websites online.
Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To make use of the service consumers should get the Apple Pay button on-line.
Mac desktop and laptop users must authenticate all purchases; which has a finger print scan with an iPhone, or even a double discuss a Mac Watch. Which means Mac users with an Android phone will be doomed.
Users will also have to do their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported that the next Mac Main system; Sierra, will permit people to pay with Apple Pay without having a finger print scan – if they login using an iCloud account. Since Sierra isn’t yet available, it seems as if Mac users may need to buy an apple iphone to go shopping on the web.
Or they could only 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 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 take Apple Pay is the second largest online general merchandise retailer in america: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their very own payment solutions it really is unlikely that either of them will get about the Apple Pay bandwagon soon.
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 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 appears to be if PayPal and not Apple might be the desolate man on the web and social media marketing payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to be a market product. One must ponder whether this means that 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 niche for Apple Pay outside the US compared to its home country. A theory Tim Cook generally seems to accept; Fortune reported that Apple has intends to roll Apple Shell out in Japan, Russia and Nz this fall.