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Bitcoin iOS app open sourced
- nextparadigms 15y agoWill there be an Android version?
- milkshakes 15y agothere's bitcoiner: https://market.android.com/details?id=net.lwi.bitcoiner https://market.android.com/details?id=net.lwi.bitcoiner
- recoiledsnake 15y agoMostly useless, because it will run only on jailbroken iDevices.
- kaerast 15y agoThere's not much else they can do though when Apple banned it from the iStore.
- mork 15y agoOn what grounds was it banned?
- benologist 15y agoThe "Apple said so" grounds.
- norswap 15y ago"Use of intermediate currency."
- Groxx 15y agoi.e., providing a way to buy things without giving Apple their 30%.
- mork 15y agoMaybe Apple is missing an opportunity. If they were to start accepting their 30% in bitcoins, it would sure give that form of payment a boost.
- Groxx 15y agoThey could, yes. They could require all transactions to go through a wallet they implemented. Or simply require all transactions to send 30% to Apple, though that'd be hard to prove, and would require an even lengthier review process. But I doubt it's in their best interest to do so, honestly. I'd love it, to be sure, but unless / until Bitcoin gets more acceptance, and makes it past a legal barrier or two, it's high risk and high cost for them.
- SwaroopH 15y agoNot really, iOS Developers can compile & install the app on their & other (limited) devices.
- Xuzz 15y agoWhich is about 10% of all iDevices, so not particularly useless. (And, as others gave said, that doesn't even include the developers who can sign and install it for themselves, as well.)
- xnerdr 15y agoFor those interested in Bitcoin right now (mostly geeks) i'd say the % of jailbroken iDevices is much higher, i'd throw 80% out as a guess.
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- RyanKearney 15y ago80% is a gross overestimation.
- kristofferR 15y agoMost people interested in Bitcoins right now are geeks and the majority of geeks should have jailbroken their iPhones. 80% of the whole iPhone user mass is a gross overestimation, but I don't think that it's an overestimation to say that 80% of huge geeks have jailbroken their iPhones.
- olivercameron 15y agoA lot of my friends are "geeks", and none of them have a jailbroken iPhone. In fact, the only person I know who has a jailbroken iPhone is a regular teenager, and that's because he refuses to pay for apps.
- jrockway 15y agoHow many of your friends use Bitcoins?
- kristofferR 15y agoLooks pretty nice: https://github.com/udibr/bitcoinApp/blob/master/BitCoin/Screenshot%202011.04.18%2011.00.07.png https://github.com/udibr/bitcoinApp/blob/master/BitCoin/Scre...
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- milkshakes 15y agoit seems like they're also doing some sort of ad hoc distribution for those without dev tools: https://testflightapp.com/join/25bf5108ebf60dd935baa57f36856aee-OTkzNQ/ https://testflightapp.com/join/25bf5108ebf60dd935baa57f36856...
- Zev 15y agoTestflight is generally limited to 100 people/devices (as that's the limit Apple gives a developer account)
- RyanKearney 15y ago100 Per Developer, and now it's open source, meaning any developer can package it distribute it via this method.
- Zev 15y agoyou will need more than a single testflight link for that distribution scheme to work.
- CrazedGeek 15y agoHas anyone put it on a Cydia repo yet?
- jerguismi 15y agoI have also created one bitcoin iPhone app which Apple rejected: https://github.com/kangasbros/BitcoinWatch-iPhone https://github.com/kangasbros/BitcoinWatch-iPhone It is a just very simple app for following mtgox USD rate/market depth/last trades.
- zackattack 15y agoWhy did they reject it?
- jerguismi 15y agoNot useful enough/simple apps which act just as a frontend to a web site are rejected.