Apple Pay copies PayPal

Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is trying to improve Apple Pay’s popularity by taking a website from PayPal’s playbook. On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Apple updated its systems so enable Apple Pay users will pay online on a website.

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

Mac desktop and laptop users must authenticate all purchases; which has a finger print scan while on an iPhone, or even a double touch on a Mac Watch. That means Mac users with the Android phone will be doomed.

Users will also have to perform their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported the next Mac Main system; Sierra, allows customers to pay with Apple Pay without having a finger marks scan – after they login with an iCloud account. Since Sierra isn’t yet available, it appears just as if Mac users may need to buy an apple iphone to look shopping on the web.

Or they could don’t use anything but PayPal; which doesn’t require a fingerprint, or their bank card. You have to wonder why anybody would bother with Apple’s payment solution.

Another major drawback is the fact that many major websites; such as the biggest name in US online retail Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), still don’t take Apple Pay. Also refusing to consider Apple Pay may be the second largest online general merchandise retailer in the usa: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their own payment solutions it can be unlikely that either of them will get around the Apple Pay bandwagon soon.

Venmo Meet Siri

It appears to be if Apple Pay isn’t a serious threat to PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL). Instead PayPal is actually 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 looks as if PayPal and never Apple could be the way forward for web social media payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to remain a market product. One has to wonder if which means PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.

Apple Pay Visiting Japan, Russia and New Zealand

It appears to be if there can be a bigger marketplace for Apple Pay beyond your US when compared to its home country. A theory Tim Cook generally seems to trust; Fortune reported that Apple has offers to roll Apple Fork out in Japan, Russia and Nz this fall.