PayPal, online
payment services plan to withdraw its services for Microsoft
Windows Phones, Blackberry and Amazon Fire OS and will move to Apple’s IOS and
Google Android.
PayPal,
online payment service announced its plan to abandon the apps for Microsoft
Windows Phones, Blackberry and Amazon Fire OS on its blog. Now Kindle users
will be looking for Kindle support. Now
it has steered all the way to Apple’s iOS and Google Android. These two
platforms have dominated the mobile payment space. Both Apple and Google
accounted for 97% of phones sales in the first quarter of 2016 according
to sales figures compiled by Gartner Inc.I hope Amzon can address this issue on
Kindle Help.
It will
be bidding farewell to Window Phone, Blackberry and Amazon Kindle apps by 30th
June.
With
the announcement of PayPal’s withdrawal one more news came up that Microsoft is
cutting 1,850
jobs in its smartphone business.
PayPal has come up with his new version 6.0 which is currently supported
by Android devices running OS running OS 4.03 or later and Apple devices
running iOS 8.1 or higher. The latter category includes iPhone 4s or higher,
iPad 2 or greater, and iPod Touch 5th generation or later.
Customers those are using old versions of PayPal mobile app on
Android and iOs will have to upgrade their PayPal version to 6.0. PayPal
version 6.0 has many enhanced features such as send and request money, PayPal
balance and transaction history.
Thomas
Husson, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Inc., said that it's
not surprising that PayPal was dumping support for Microsoft Windows Phone,
BlackBerry and Amazon Fire OS.
"Publishers
and developers are no longer investing in these platforms," said Husson. According
to him why should it invest in platforms that are about to disappear and it
makes more sense for PayPal to invest in new platforms like bots or messaging
apps than on the tools of the past.
However,
Window users can still access PayPal via its mobile site on Internet explorer
and Microsoft Edge browsers. Also, Outlook users can also use the PayPal add-in
to send money. BlackBerry users can also still send money via BlackBerry
Messenger. Kindle Fire users are not left with any alternative they have to
take Kindle fire support to know in
details.
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