Apple Pay copies PayPal

Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is intending to raise Apple Pay’s popularity by taking a webpage away 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 work with the service consumers should obtain the Apple Pay button online.

Mac desktop and laptop users must authenticate all purchases; using a pistol safe scan with an iPhone, or perhaps a double touch on a Mac Watch. That means Mac users having an Android phone will probably be in a hopeless situation.

Users will also have to do their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported that this next Mac Os; Sierra, will allow visitors to pay with Apple Pay without a finger print scan – after they login via an iCloud account. Since Sierra isn’t yet available, it’s just as if Mac users might have to buy an iPhone to travel shopping online.

Or they’re able to just use PayPal; which doesn’t require a fingerprint, or their bank card. One has to wonder why anybody would use Apple’s payment solution.

Another major drawback is many major websites; including the biggest name in US online retail Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), still don’t take Apple Pay. Also refusing to look at Apple Pay may be the second largest online general merchandise retailer in america: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their unique payment solutions it’s unlikely that either of them will get around the Apple Pay bandwagon in the near future.

Venmo Meet Siri

It looks as if Apple Pay is not an serious threat to PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL). Instead PayPal is in fact 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 it’ll happen.

It seems to be if PayPal instead of Apple may be the future of on the internet and social media payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to be a distinct segment product. One has to wonder if because of this PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.

Apple Pay Visiting Japan, Russia and New Zealand

It appears to be if there may be a bigger market for Apple Pay outside the US when compared to its home country. A theory Tim Cook generally seems to accept; Fortune reported that Apple has intends to roll Apple Fork out in Japan, Russia and New Zealand this fall.