Separately, Apple said it was expanding its Apple Pay system to the Web, allowing merchants to handle transactions which can be authenticated on a user's iPhone or Apple Watch. This will mean that iPhone users navigating with Apple Maps can, for example, make a restaurant reservation using a third-party service such as Open Table, said Apple vice president Eddy Cue. "Now you'll be able to tell Siri to send a WeChat," said Apple vice president Craig Federighi, referring to the Chinese messaging application. The new feature will enable iPhone users to connect with non-Apple services to send messages, make payments and search photos, for example. In a bid to compete with Amazon, Google and Microsoft, the smartphone manufacturers open up its digital assistant to third party app developers.

Source: dna June 14, 2016 03:22 UTC