Apple Pay copies PayPal

Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is intending to raise Apple Pay’s popularity by taking a site beyond PayPal’s playbook. , September 13, 2016, Apple updated its operating systems so enable Apple Pay users will probably pay online.

Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To use the service consumers will need to find the Apple Pay button on a website.

Mac desktop and laptop users must authenticate all purchases; with a finger marks scan by using an iPhone, or a double discuss a Mac Watch. This means Mac users with the Android phone will probably be out of luck.

Users may also have to complete their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported how the next Mac Os; Sierra, enables visitors to pay with Apple Pay with no pistol safe scan – once they login through an iCloud account. Since Sierra is just not yet available, it looks just as if Mac users may need to buy an iPhone to look shopping online.

Or they are able to only use PayPal; which doesn’t require a fingerprint, or their plastic card. One must wonder why anybody would make use of Apple’s payment solution.

Another major drawback is 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 may be the second largest online general merchandise retailer in the usa: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their very own payment solutions it really is unlikely that either of these will get around the Apple Pay bandwagon any time soon.

Venmo Meet Siri

It appears to be if Apple Pay is not an serious threat to PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL). Instead PayPal is definitely 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 appears to be if PayPal rather than Apple would be the future of on the web and social networking payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to stay a niche product. One must wonder if which means that PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.

Apple Pay Arriving at Japan, Russia and New Zealand

It appears to be if there might be a bigger niche for Apple Pay beyond your US in comparison to its home country. A theory Tim Cook appears to trust; Fortune reported that Apple has intends to roll Apple Spend in Japan, Russia and New Zealand this fall.