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Getting out of hand? This isn't some new behavior from Apple breaking with past behavior. Apple already bans competing web browsers with their own rendering e
by JohnTHaller 13y ago
Getting out of hand? This isn't some new behavior from Apple breaking with past behavior. Apple already bans competing web browsers with their own rendering engines (forcing them to use the slower Mobile Safari without JIT), bans any app which duplicates any functionality Apple has or is considering adding to their platform, and forces all providers to either give them 30% or not have in-app purchases or even links to purchases. Banning bitcoin send functionality is tame compared to that.
- fharper1961 13y agoExactly! In 2010, I swore off of iOS and moved to Android for exactly this reason. I didn't want to be prisoner of a platform where a corporation could decide what software I was allowed to run on my device. I hope Apple's policy will be untenable in the long run.
- reginaldjcooper 13y agoI just got my Android phone and I agree. I shall never again pay someone for the "privilege" of programming my own device.
- trevelyan 13y agoI also dropped iOS over this and am pleased I did. The Bitcoin Wallet software on Android is amazing: no-one I know who has seen it in action wants to buy another iPhone.