Apple Pay copies PayPal

Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is attempting to improve Apple Pay’s popularity through a website from PayPal’s playbook. , September 13, 2016, Apple updated its systems so enable Apple Pay users will pay on websites.

Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To utilize the service consumers should find the Apple Pay button on a website.

Mac desktop and laptop users should authenticate all purchases; using a pistol safe scan while on an iPhone, or even a double touch on a Mac Watch. That means Mac users having an Android phone will be out of luck.

Users may also have to do their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported the next Mac Operating System; Sierra, will allow people to pay with Apple Pay with no pistol safe scan – after they login using an iCloud account. Since Sierra isn’t yet available, it’s like Mac users might have to buy an apple iphone to visit shopping on the web.

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

Another major drawback is always that many major websites; like the 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 america: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their own payment solutions it is unlikely that either of them are certain to get around the Apple Pay bandwagon soon.

Venmo Meet Siri

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

It looks as if PayPal and not Apple may be the way forward for web social networking payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to be a distinct segment product. One has to wonder if which means PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.

Apple Pay Visiting Japan, Russia and New Zealand

It seems to be if there might be a greater marketplace for Apple Pay outside of the US when compared to its home country. A theory Tim Cook generally seems to agree with; Fortune reported that Apple has intends to roll Apple Fork out in Japan, Russia and New Zealand this fall.