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Image. They want to be seen as safe and mainstream. They build devices to suit a soccer mom's sensibilities.
by Touche 13y ago
Image. They want to be seen as safe and mainstream. They build devices to suit a soccer mom's sensibilities.
- buttsex 13y agoI don't see how having a Bitcoin wallet app makes them unsafe. There are plenty of non-mainstream apps in the store as well.
- adamio 13y agoGood for them gettin the evil bitcoiners off the iPhones
- j79 13y agoExactly. If I ask my mom or dad about bitcoin, they won't think "decentralized crypto currency", but "isn't that what they used on that silkroad site I heard about on Fox News a while back??"
- arjie 13y agoI agree. It's just the same position as they have for pornographic apps.
- ZenoArrow 13y agoIt's nothing to do with that, there are plenty of apps on the app store that are designed for very niche markets. The true intentions are hidden, but based on past behaviour I'd say Apple are trying to lock down the financial transactions on their devices so they can always take a cut. Does seem increasingly likely that phones will become the 'wallet of the future', Apple aren't likely to give up control of that lightly.
- snowwrestler 13y agoExactly-- that's also why they allow SSH apps. For all the soccer moms who need to SSH into their servers from their phones.