“If you so choose, you will soon be able to send money to friends and family via Apple’s iMessage, powered by Square’s payments app, Square Cash,” Leena Rao reports for Fortune.
“Payments company Square has built an payments app for iMessage, which is an extension of its app Square Cash, which lets anyone with a credit or debit card send money to another person,” Rao reports. “Once the customer has downloaded the Square Cash for iMessage app from the Apple App Store, he or she can open Square Cash with iMessage, enter the message recipient and how much money should be sent. The final step is just to press send, all without leaving the conversation.”
“Square Cash users will also be able to ask Apple’s digital virtual assistant, Siri, to send any amount of money to a friend through the digital payments service,” Rao reports. “Upon making a request to Siri, the Siri interface will pop up on the iPhone, asking to confirm the money sent and amount.”
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I wish that team up with PayPal for iMessage. That what PayPal is for to sent money to families and friends.
I mean Apple to team up with PayPal.
PayPal is the one who doesn’t care for Apple Pay. They want to do what Apple is doing as a competitor.
Square maybe working with Apple just to mess with PayPal. I think it might work, but I don’t see Square Pay anywhere, like I see PayPal.
Apple should do it’s own thing. I don’t want to have to make another account to accept or give money.
I think Square needs Apple much more than PayPal would. There are also a lot of ex-Apple people at Square, so I think the working relationship will be better than it would be with PayPal.
I agree
Square Cash>PayPal
Square Cash is instant, where PayPal takes a couple of days to transfer the funds…