Apple Pay copies PayPal

Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is wanting to boost Apple Pay’s popularity by taking a webpage out of PayPal’s playbook. On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Apple updated its os so enable Apple Pay users will probably 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 perhaps a double discuss a Mac Watch. This means Mac users with an 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 how the next Mac Operating System; Sierra, will permit people to pay with Apple Pay with out a pistol safe scan – if they login using an iCloud account. Since Sierra is not yet available, it’s like Mac users may need to buy an apple iphone to go internet shopping.

Or they can don’t use anything but PayPal; which does not need a fingerprint, or their credit card. One has to wonder why anybody would make use of Apple’s payment solution.

Another major drawback is many major websites; including the biggest name in US online retail Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), still don’t take Apple Pay. Also refusing to adopt Apple Pay will be the second largest online general merchandise retailer in the United States: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their own payment solutions it really is unlikely that either of these are certain to get on 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 in fact expanding to Apple; its’ Venmo money-transfer app is 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 rather than Apple may be the future of online and social networking payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to be a niche market product. You have to wonder if which means PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.

Apple Pay Going to Japan, Russia and New Zealand

It appears to be if there can be a bigger niche for Apple Pay away from US when compared to its home country. A theory Tim Cook usually agree with; Fortune reported that Apple has promises to roll Apple Fork out in Japan, Russia and New Zealand this fall.