Apple Pay copies PayPal

Posted on by

Apple Pay copies PayPal

Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is attempting to boost Apple Pay’s popularity through a webpage from PayPal’s playbook. , September 13, 2016, Apple updated its os so enable Apple Pay users can pay online.


Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To use the service consumers will need to obtain the Apple Pay button on-line.

Mac desktop and laptop users will have to authenticate all purchases; with a finger print scan while on an iPhone, or a double talk about a Mac Watch. Meaning Mac users by having an Android phone will be doomed.

Users will also have to complete their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported how the next Mac Operating-system; Sierra, will allow customers to pay with Apple Pay without having a pistol safe scan – if they login through an iCloud account. Since Sierra is just not yet available, it looks like Mac users might have to buy an iPhone to go shopping online.

Or they could just use PayPal; which does not need a fingerprint, or their plastic card. One must wonder why anybody would bother with Apple’s payment solution.

Another major drawback is that many major websites; including the biggest name in US online retail Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), still don’t take Apple Pay. Also refusing to look at Apple Pay is the second largest online general merchandise retailer in the us: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their very own payment solutions it is unlikely that either ones is certain to get around the Apple Pay bandwagon any time soon.

Venmo Meet Siri

It looks as if Apple Pay is not a serious threat to PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL). Instead PayPal is actually 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 rather than Apple may be the desolate man online and social websites 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 looks as if there might be a more impressive industry for Apple Pay outside the US in comparison to its home country. A theory Tim Cook seems to accept; Fortune reported that Apple has offers to roll Apple Spend in Japan, Russia and New Zealand this fall.