Apple Pay copies PayPal

Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is attempting to improve Apple Pay’s popularity by taking a website away from PayPal’s playbook. On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Apple updated its operating systems 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 should obtain the Apple Pay button on a website.

Mac desktop and laptop users will need to authenticate all purchases; having a pistol safe scan on an iPhone, or possibly a double discuss a Mac Watch. This means Mac users with an Android phone is going to be doomed.

Users may also have to accomplish their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported that this next Mac Os; Sierra, enables people to pay with Apple Pay without having a pistol safe scan – as long as they login with an iCloud account. Since Sierra is just not yet available, it appears just as if Mac users may need to buy an iPhone to look internet shopping.

Or they’re able to don’t use anything but PayPal; which doesn’t need a fingerprint, or their plastic card. One must wonder why anybody would work with Apple’s payment solution.

Another major drawback is many major websites; such as 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 the United States: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their very own payment solutions it really is unlikely that either ones can get for 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 in fact 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’ll happen.

It seems to be if PayPal and not Apple could be the way forward for on the internet and social media payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to keep 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 might be a more impressive market for Apple Pay outside the US when compared to its home country. A theory Tim Cook usually trust; Fortune reported that Apple has intends to roll Apple Spend in Japan, Russia and New Zealand this fall.