Apple Pay copies PayPal

Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is intending to boost Apple Pay’s popularity by taking a webpage away from PayPal’s playbook. , September 13, 2016, Apple updated its operating systems so enable Apple Pay users pays 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 must authenticate all purchases; having a finger marks scan with an iPhone, or a double touch on a Mac Watch. Meaning Mac users having an Android phone will likely be doomed.

Users will also gain to accomplish their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported the next Mac Operating-system; Sierra, allows people to pay with Apple Pay with out a pistol safe scan – if they login via an iCloud account. Since Sierra is not yet available, it’s like Mac users might have to buy an iPhone to go shopping on the web.

Or they’re able to exclusively use PayPal; which doesn’t need a fingerprint, or their credit card. One has to wonder why anybody would work with Apple’s payment solution.

Another major drawback is always 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 take Apple Pay is the second largest online general merchandise retailer in the usa: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their unique payment solutions it’s unlikely that either of them will get about the Apple Pay bandwagon soon.

Venmo Meet Siri

It appears to be if Apple Pay is not a serious threat to PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL). Instead PayPal is in fact expanding to Apple; its’ Venmo money-transfer app is currently 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 looks as if PayPal and not Apple may be the desolate man on the internet and social media payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to be a market product. One has to wonder if because of this PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.

Apple Pay Arriving at Japan, Russia and New Zealand

It seems to be if there could be a larger niche for Apple Pay beyond your US in comparison to its home country. A theory Tim Cook seems to accept; Fortune reported that Apple has intends to roll Apple Pay out in Japan, Russia and Nz this fall.