I suspect that John C. Biggins, of Flatbush National Bank, is already dead (http://bit.ly/1o7ECov). But I'm sure he wouldn't have mind to give an interview to you around 1947. Sheesh...
So what did he say in an interview that would drastically change our view of credit cards today? Nothing.
What could Satoshi Nakamoto say in an interview that would drastically change our view of bitcoin today? Nothing.
And as for Sog35:
What possible economic reason does Apple have for allowing fart apps, zit popping apps, poo tracking apps, lightsaber apps? Hint: there doesn't need to be one.
As for risks associated with bitcoin - what's the one you're actually concerned about?
Pyramid/Ponzi scheme - false by design, or you just don't understand what a Ponzi or pyramid scheme actually entails
Illegality - Only illegal in Russia. Iceland has capital export laws meaning you can't buy bitcoins from overseas, but their use within Iceland is legal. So just block from the Russian app store like they do with other regional apps.
Volatility - why is this Apple's concern?
No backing if someone steals your coins - what do you do if someone steals your wallet? Run to the bank and try to get your $100 bills back?
What if someone raids your account - this is one area that you may have some point, but why is this any of Apple's concern? Apple doesn't compensate you if your Lloyds bank account gets hacked. Lloyds does.
Go on - what actual risk is there to Apple of accepting bitcoin wallets? It's trivial to demonstrate that an app doesn't need a positive economic case before being accepted, so why be hypocritical and require bitcoin to have one?
You do realize Windows had 90% of the market. iOS doesn't have even half of that (or so the media says)
They do on iPad, once you count the fact that the "white box" tablets are probably just an IDC marketing ploy. iPads are replacing the entire PC market, really I see Apple as being in a stronger position than Microsoft was back when.
Microsoft is in a terrible spot since the PC market is dying. Google is in a terrible spot since the PC market is dying, and Samsung and Apple have the opportunity to grab all of the mobile advertising revenue and cut Google off at the knees. Apple and Amazon are going to kill all their competition, I just don't see how they can fail to dominate.
Just pointing out factually that you stated a falsehood -- or made an ignorant statement -- earlier, that's all. You post (quoted above) is just irrelevant CYA.
So why should we assume anything better when it comes to bitcoins, from you?
They do on iPad, once you count the fact that the "white box" tablets are probably just an IDC marketing ploy. iPads are replacing the entire PC market, really I see Apple as being in a stronger position than Microsoft was back when.
Microsoft is in a terrible spot since the PC market is dying. Google is in a terrible spot since the PC market is dying, and Samsung and Apple have the opportunity to grab all of the mobile advertising revenue and cut Google off at the knees. Apple and Amazon are going to kill all their competition, I just don't see how they can fail to dominate.
And if you remove all non- iOS devices, Apple has 100% market share. That's what the basis of your argument is: Changing the market to suit your statistics. You wanna use bit coin on mobile devices, get an Android. "Problem" solved.
Wow. I mean, I like my Apple stuff but they don't have nearly enough control over my life that I have ceded it to them by a long shot. Who would rely on living via Apple so completely that every time Apple makes a left turn they feel like they've been left out in the desert? If you've been ordering cat food via some company's IOS app and they don't continue updating it through the next OS are you going to jump off a bridge because instead of going dit dit dit on your iPhone you'll have to call in the order?
It's a big world out there. Go for a walk. Talk to some friends. Take a drive. Leave your iPad home. That might be all the exercising of control you need.
Apple sucks balls. Okay?
I've been following Apple and using their products since 1979.
I have major problems with one MacBook working with AppleTV and the other. Also, have problems playing DVDs though AppleTV. And AppleTV being slow with Youtube.
I could go on.
Tim, wake the F up and get your software division waked the F' up.
Also, I OS 7 looks like crap.
Owner of Apple TV, 3 MacBooks, 5 iPhones, and an Apple Ipad Mini.
As an Englishman, I'm embarrassed by people like pete borota. The strength of anti-Apple sentiment in England is one of the worst traits of my nationality.
As a Britisher I am not at all embarrassed by Pete Borata's comment. Whereas I do not agree with his comment I believe he is entitled to his opinion and I resent making his comments a personal insult. By all means criticize the content of his post but please layoff the person.
BTW can't I sell a product by bypassing the apple app store? Don't profess to be an Apple nerd just own the stock because I believe it is incredible value. Time will let if I am right. BTW I am NOT a bitcoin fan and won't even take the time to research them. When it becomes legal tender, I will be glad to look into it
I've been following Apple and using their products since 1979.
Which is unverifiable by others and not that important to the complaint, IMO.
I have major problems with one MacBook working with AppleTV and the other. Also, have problems playing DVDs though AppleTV. And AppleTV being slow with Youtube.
I have to question this "playing DVDs" bit. AppleTV wasn't marketed as being able to playing DVDs at all. To complain about a product's inability to do something that's not an officially supported feature is unseemly.
Also, I OS 7 looks like crap.
Not a big fan myself.
Owner of Apple TV, 3 MacBooks, 5 iPhones, and an Apple Ipad Mini.
Or, could be concern troll. A difference of opinion on style is valid, and I think the YouTube complaint is possibly valid, I haven't tried that feature lately. The rest of the complaints? eh.
Rightly or wrongly, governments are banning Bitcoin and prosecuting Bitcoin exchange operators, among other things. It's more likely that Apple is trying to stay on the right side of the law(s).
Apple have removed all BitCoin apps from their App Store, blocking users from using BitCoin in a native app on their platform. Apple have placed roadblocks in the way of users using BitCoin.
I never said anything against any of that. But you’d know that if you read the post.
The web isn't Apples platform, so web apps don't count.
Ladies and gentlemen, our first round draft pick for XLS.
And Apple’s blocking Bitcoin from their… Oh, wait, they’re not, are they?
I don't know what you mean by XLS, but I'll take the comment as a compliment and admittance that you wrote hastily and don't read think through your comment.
That they’re blocking it from their platform. Because they’re not.
Removing it from the App Store is basically equivalent to that.
Would you not say that Apple block pornography from their platform, or politically controversial content?
Yes, yes, you can get to it via Safari or other web-centric apps, but the web isn't Apple's platform, and using web apps offers less power, speed and integration, so it's a less convenient solution, as was the main thrust of my point.
Perhaps when your arguments have more sophistication than:
i) you said the magic word so you're a troll ii) you said something that doesn't conform to the dictionary definition that I'm choosing to use, so your whole argument is invalid iii) shut up and go away
Yeah, fight your imagined lies with real ones, that's a great strategy; I'm confident it'll be as successful as your anti-troll crusade. I don't think you really know what lying is, you throw the accusation around so often.
Since we could trade insults for the rest of the evening, that's the end of me on the subject, so make your last word a good one.
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I suspect that John C. Biggins, of Flatbush National Bank, is already dead (http://bit.ly/1o7ECov). But I'm sure he wouldn't have mind to give an interview to you around 1947. Sheesh...
Volatility - why is this Apple's concern?
No backing if someone steals your coins - what do you do if someone steals your wallet? Run to the bank and try to get your $100 bills back?
What if someone raids your account - this is one area that you may have some point, but why is this any of Apple's concern? Apple doesn't compensate you if your Lloyds bank account gets hacked. Lloyds does.
Go on - what actual risk is there to Apple of accepting bitcoin wallets? It's trivial to demonstrate that an app doesn't need a positive economic case before being accepted, so why be hypocritical and require bitcoin to have one?
You do realize Windows had 90% of the market. iOS doesn't have even half of that (or so the media says)
They do on iPad, once you count the fact that the "white box" tablets are probably just an IDC marketing ploy. iPads are replacing the entire PC market, really I see Apple as being in a stronger position than Microsoft was back when.
Microsoft is in a terrible spot since the PC market is dying. Google is in a terrible spot since the PC market is dying, and Samsung and Apple have the opportunity to grab all of the mobile advertising revenue and cut Google off at the knees. Apple and Amazon are going to kill all their competition, I just don't see how they can fail to dominate.
Don't spread FUD. Homosexuality was decriminalized in Russia in 1993.
Then Apple blocked Grindr in Russia because they hate gays personally?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/05/gay_hook_up_app_russia_block/
Being gay itself may not be illegal in Russia, but a search for "Russian anti-gay laws" returns a lot of results.
http://www.thewrap.com/stephen-colbert-russia-anti-gay-laws-youd-expect-putin-cover-manholes-video/
Then Apple blocked Grindr in Russia because they hate gays personally?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/05/gay_hook_up_app_russia_block/
Being gay itself may not be illegal in Russia, but a search for "Russian anti-gay laws" returns a lot of results.
http://www.thewrap.com/stephen-colbert-russia-anti-gay-laws-youd-expect-putin-cover-manholes-video/
Just pointing out factually that you stated a falsehood -- or made an ignorant statement -- earlier, that's all. You post (quoted above) is just irrelevant CYA.
So why should we assume anything better when it comes to bitcoins, from you?
And if you remove all non- iOS devices, Apple has 100% market share. That's what the basis of your argument is: Changing the market to suit your statistics. You wanna use bit coin on mobile devices, get an Android. "Problem" solved.
Wow. I mean, I like my Apple stuff but they don't have nearly enough control over my life that I have ceded it to them by a long shot. Who would rely on living via Apple so completely that every time Apple makes a left turn they feel like they've been left out in the desert? If you've been ordering cat food via some company's IOS app and they don't continue updating it through the next OS are you going to jump off a bridge because instead of going dit dit dit on your iPhone you'll have to call in the order?
It's a big world out there. Go for a walk. Talk to some friends. Take a drive. Leave your iPad home. That might be all the exercising of control you need.
Apple sucks balls. Okay?
I've been following Apple and using their products since 1979.
I have major problems with one MacBook working with AppleTV and the other. Also, have problems playing DVDs though AppleTV. And AppleTV being slow with Youtube.
I could go on.
Tim, wake the F up and get your software division waked the F' up.
Also, I OS 7 looks like crap.
Owner of Apple TV, 3 MacBooks, 5 iPhones, and an Apple Ipad Mini.
Are these YouTube videos you burned to a DVD then tried to play through the AppleTV?
As an Englishman, I'm embarrassed by people like pete borota. The strength of anti-Apple sentiment in England is one of the worst traits of my nationality.
As a Britisher I am not at all embarrassed by Pete Borata's comment. Whereas I do not agree with his comment I believe he is entitled to his opinion and I resent making his comments a personal insult. By all means criticize the content of his post but please layoff the person.
BTW can't I sell a product by bypassing the apple app store? Don't profess to be an Apple nerd just own the stock because I believe it is incredible value. Time will let if I am right. BTW I am NOT a bitcoin fan and won't even take the time to research them. When it becomes legal tender, I will be glad to look into it
Which is unverifiable by others and not that important to the complaint, IMO.
I have to question this "playing DVDs" bit. AppleTV wasn't marketed as being able to playing DVDs at all. To complain about a product's inability to do something that's not an officially supported feature is unseemly.
Not a big fan myself.
Or, could be concern troll. A difference of opinion on style is valid, and I think the YouTube complaint is possibly valid, I haven't tried that feature lately. The rest of the complaints? eh.
Obviously you didn’t.
I never said anything against any of that. But you’d know that if you read the post.
Ladies and gentlemen, our first round draft pick for XLS.
I don't know what you mean by XLS, but I'll take the comment as a compliment and admittance that you wrote hastily and don't read think through your comment.
That they’re blocking it from their platform. Because they’re not.
You’re moving the goalposts. I’ll say again.
Would you not say that Apple block pornography from their platform, or politically controversial content?
Yes, yes, you can get to it via Safari or other web-centric apps, but the web isn't Apple's platform, and using web apps offers less power, speed and integration, so it's a less convenient solution, as was the main thrust of my point.
Arguing with you about what you constantly pretend is semantics is what’s irritating.
Perhaps when your arguments have more sophistication than:
i) you said the magic word so you're a troll
ii) you said something that doesn't conform to the dictionary definition that I'm choosing to use, so your whole argument is invalid
iii) shut up and go away
then we can have a proper debate about something.
There’s my laugh for today.
Interesting to know you support England leaving the United Kingdom, though.
Well, since you get to pretend that others have said things they haven’t, it’s only fair.
Stop replying with lies, then.
Since we could trade insults for the rest of the evening, that's the end of me on the subject, so make your last word a good one.