Apple Pay copies PayPal

Apple Pay copies PayPal

Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is trying to increase Apple Pay’s popularity by taking a website beyond PayPal’s playbook. On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Apple updated its os’s so enable Apple Pay users can pay online on a website.

Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To utilize the service consumers will have to get the Apple Pay button on-line.

Mac desktop and laptop users must authenticate all purchases; having a finger print scan on an iPhone, or a double touch on a Mac Watch. Which means Mac users with the Android phone is going to be at a complete loss.

Users will also have to accomplish their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported that this next Mac Operating System; Sierra, will permit people to pay with Apple Pay with out a finger print scan – once they login using an iCloud account. Since Sierra is not yet available, it appears like Mac users might have to buy an iPhone to look online shopping.

Or they’re able to don’t use anything but PayPal; which does not require a fingerprint, or their bank card. You have to wonder why anybody would bother with Apple’s payment solution.

Another major drawback is the fact that 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 america: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their very own payment solutions it can be unlikely that either of them will get about the Apple Pay bandwagon any time soon.

Venmo Meet Siri

It appears 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 now integrated with iOS 10.

That means Venmo users can send money using Siri and iMessage, Venmo’s blog claimed. A Venmo user may also say hey Siri send Joe $30 and it’ll happen.

It appears to be if PayPal rather than Apple could be the desolate man on the web and social networking payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to be a niche market product. You have to ponder whether because of this PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.

Apple Pay Visiting Japan, Russia and New Zealand

It appears to be if there can be a greater market for Apple Pay outside of the US in comparison to its home country. A theory Tim Cook generally seems to go along with; Fortune reported that Apple has offers to roll Apple Pay out in Japan, Russia and Nz this fall.