Apple Pay copies PayPal

Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is attempting to boost Apple Pay’s popularity by taking a website out of PayPal’s playbook. On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Apple updated its os’s so enable Apple Pay users will probably pay online on a website.

Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To utilize the service consumers will have to discover the Apple Pay button online.

Mac desktop and laptop users will need to authenticate all purchases; with a pistol safe scan with an iPhone, or possibly a double touch on a Mac Watch. Meaning Mac users with an Android phone will likely be in a hopeless situation.

Users will also have to perform their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported the next Mac Os; Sierra, will allow people to pay with Apple Pay with out a pistol safe scan – once they login with an iCloud account. Since Sierra isn’t yet available, it looks just as if Mac users might have to buy an iPhone to visit online shopping.

Or they are able to only use PayPal; which doesn’t need a fingerprint, or their charge card. You have to wonder why anybody would use Apple’s payment solution.

Another major drawback is 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 could be the second largest online general merchandise retailer in america: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their unique payment solutions it can be unlikely that either of these will get for the Apple Pay bandwagon in the near future.

Venmo Meet Siri

It appears to be if Apple Pay is not a serious threat to PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL). Instead PayPal is definitely 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 may also say hey Siri send Joe $30 and it will happen.

It looks as if PayPal and not Apple would be the future of on the internet and social media payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to remain a distinct segment product. One has to ponder whether which means that PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.

Apple Pay Coming to Japan, Russia and New Zealand

It seems to be if there can be a larger marketplace for Apple Pay outside the US compared to its home country. A theory Tim Cook seems to agree with; Fortune reported that Apple has promises to roll Apple Spend in Japan, Russia and Nz this fall.