PayPal Says Apple Pay is as Safe as Your Selfies in iCloud [Image]

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Posted September 15, 2014 at 10:51pm by Shalom Levytam

PayPal has gone on the offensive attacking Apple Pay in a full page New York Times ad that references the recent nude celebrity photo scandal in which numerous photos were stolen from iCloud accounts. Those photos were obtained via social engineering hacks rather than an iCloud breach; however, the ad plays on the perception of lax security that some users may now have.

The ad reads:

"WE THE PEOPLE WANT OUR MONEY SAFER THAN OUR SELFIES. PAYPAL PROTECTING THE PEOPLE ECONOMY

PayPal - PEOPLE RULE"

PayPal Says Apple Pay is as Safe as Your Selfies in iCloud [Image]

The ad follows other comment attacking Apple Pay from PayPal Sr. Director of Communication Rob Skinner who told TechRadar, “Nobody can dispute Apple’s strong track record, but payments is a difficult area. It’s much more difficult to do payments than to keep a live stream working!” That comment was in reference to Apple's failed live stream for it's September 9th keynote.

PayPal is clearly upset at being left out of the Apple Pay system and even excluded from the company's list of preferred payments platforms. PayPal had long been pitching Apple on helping to bring its payments initiative to fruition. It was even willing to white-label parts of its payment service to be used in an Apple mobile payments system. Unfortunately for the company, Apple believes it can take over payments on its own.

Take a look at the full ad below...

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Oblivion - September 17, 2014 at 8:38am

These types of ads show that they are scared. Any kind of mocking ad tells me you are not professional and do not take what you are doing seriously. Because not taking competition seriously is very dangerous. This goes for Samsung, Google, IKEA, Apple, PayPal and others. You can still do ads that are funny without doing it on somebody else's expense.

gamerscul9870 - September 17, 2014 at 9:41am

What did apple do that they bragged about. The get a Mac ads actually did make a point. It focused on problems like tripping over cords, security comparison, how simple it is due to how windows screws up like shit. The competition just blames even if it doesn't involve their products.

Oblivion - September 17, 2014 at 5:49pm

I don't care about bragging even if I am Swedish. But mocking is something else, it is immature. If you think you do something better than somebody, show it through your product or service. If you need to mock you actually show that you feel threatened by your competition and you use the last defense which is to take something they did bad and make fun of it, even if it is corrected since then.

Oblivion - September 17, 2014 at 7:16pm

Not sure we are talking about the post anymore.

JoshvanHulst - September 17, 2014 at 12:05am

Man you can say that again!

Theodor - September 16, 2014 at 4:31pm

once ApplePay starts treating people like shit as Paypal does, there will be really no reason to use it. If they use more of these incompetent fraud "consultants" from UK and Russia with no education who at will can block your account and damage reputation in minute. www.paypalsucks.com www.screw-paypal.com

Traveller - September 16, 2014 at 4:02pm

Banks, financial institutions are first party and Apple Pay is thhird party. Paypal is also third party so it doesn't fit in.

David - September 16, 2014 at 3:21pm

I hope paypal dies and goes bankrupt. A seller screwed me and then PayPal did NOTHING. Don't be fooled there is no insurance.

Seq - September 16, 2014 at 2:44pm

Somebody stole my $80 a long time ago from paypal and they wouldn't refund it at all. PayPal like raping people with money!

justabrake - September 16, 2014 at 2:47pm

Ebay is twice as worst !

lemon4611 - September 16, 2014 at 1:58pm

Hahaha… WRONG !!!

Kevin - September 16, 2014 at 7:08am

Paypal is too expensive too much commissions.

Their fees are ridiculous! I seriously avoid using them at all. I hate eBay and all their fees.

El Compa - September 16, 2014 at 6:56am

Check paypalsucks.com

Jay - September 16, 2014 at 6:55am

I agree I will use apple pay and PayPal will no longer get my money

Jtmax - September 16, 2014 at 6:46am

Paypal sucks. They freeze accounts left and right and they can keep the money since its so secured you can't touch it since they can't "verify the identity". I hate pays@hits and will love using Apple pay for eBay purchases

odedoo1 - September 16, 2014 at 4:02am

I don't know PayPal only takes from me %5 which is also way to much, I believe it's one of the biggest bank there is ( they make billions every day from us ) and I know a person that hacked paypal it took him 10 hours fighting on line with their security team till he made it in all the way to the names and passwords of their customers, he never abused it told PayPal that he was helping them fix security problems so this way he never got in troubles. Now competition with Apple is good for us it's almost serenely that we will pay less for the service in time.

areilly111 - September 16, 2014 at 3:43am

Thing is it's probably true. Paypal has been around much much longer where Apple pay is new and probably still has lots of bugs

gamerscul9870 - September 16, 2014 at 3:46am

First off how do you know it has bugs, second you haven't even tried it to find out, thirdly, it can't be insecure if Touch ID is only accessible by the sensor and not stored anywhere else.

Techno - September 16, 2014 at 5:34am

And your name Sampple stands for,"Sampling Apple" for their technology. What's your excuse?

areilly111 - September 16, 2014 at 12:07pm

How do I know because every new service has bugs. PayPal did, bit coin did (probably still does), iCloud did, ect...

Simon says - September 16, 2014 at 3:42am

I have 4 frozen paypal accounts, 3 of which have quite a bit of money in it. They have been frozen going on 6 years. I am also in a class action lawsuit with them. So I take what they say about security with a grain of salt. Or maybe what they mean is, your account is so secure, you yourself can't even access the money that's in there. In that car, yes! Payscam is the most secure money service out there!

hamood_d10 - September 16, 2014 at 2:58am

Yah right for my experience with Paypal, the worst pay service i ever used, they charge you more, when you want to buy from eBay they only let you buy using Paypal so they double the profit fuks, even when you contact them they took up to 4 days to reply WTF, hate there smuggling face GOD

begtodiffer - September 16, 2014 at 2:42am

Safe as icloud?? WTF!!!! Imagaine how Jennifer Lawrence feels right now...

gamerscul9870 - September 16, 2014 at 2:56am

Who's Ms. Lawrence? In fact it's true you know. The fingerprint saved is accessible only by the sensor, locked away from everything else. NSA even tried to steal one time.