As PayPal Bids Farewell to Amazon Kindle Fire, Blackberry, Microsoft, What Awaits Users?

PayPal is saying 'adieu' and is withdrawing its support to Amazon Kindle Fire, Blackberry, and Microsoft by terminating the apps specially made for these three giants.  App users of these three companies may still access their PayPal apps up until the last day of June.

The e-payment company released the news via their blog post. PayPal is also requiring its avid users to start upgrading their app for Google Android and Apple iPhone.  The decision to pull the plug on the three companies highlights the significant influence that the two tech giants have on the current market.  As per the market research group Gartner, Google and Apple's combined market share is a staggering 97%.

Unfortunately, Microsoft inability to compete head-to-head with these two companies leave them no choice but to axe an additional 1,850 jobs to last week's 4,500. Moreover, Blackberry has also demonstrated difficulties in making progress in its smartphone development and sales. Despite the surge in popularity of Amazon Kindle Fire, PayPal opted to end their support as well. As Amazon makes use of different Android variants, it becomes less and less compatible with Google's standard operating system.

In the said blog released by PayPal, its current Vice President for Consumer Product Joanna Lambert, shed light on the decision. She reiterated that the decision to end the support to these specific mobile platforms resulted in PayPal's goal of creating best practices to benefit the consumers further.

At present, users of Kindle Fire, Blackberry, and Windows are able to use PayPal using the mobile site. Moreover, users of Outlook.com are still able to utilize the PayPal add in. Sending money through Blackberry Messenger is still possible, but only up until June 30.

PayPal is also reminding all users of IOS 8.1 and Android on 4.03 versions to update their update their PayPal app.

This decision might bring setback to some mobile phone users. Consumers who are using Amazon Kindle Fire, BlackBerry, and Microsoft will have to look for an alternative means of accessing their PayPal accounts.