tommikele

they should have called it Apple Junk.

What exactly is your point besides letting everyone know you are miserable and hate Apple? Sad to be like that and be so angry.

You remind me of the guy who voluntarily goes to the party and then sits in the corner pouting and muttering that everyone else is a jerk, while secretly praying someone walks up to them and asks what's wrong so they can whine about how unfair life is to them.

No dialogue. Dialogue is code for give us time to figure out a way to evade a opt in requirement. They built business model on the premise of unauthorized surveillance. Apple stands up to the thieves and they start crying. How long until some Senators take the money and try to pass a law to screw us out of our privacy?

DAalseth said:

mistergsf said:

tundraboy said:

 '"Forcing users to use the App Store instead of Dapps (websites), or IAP instead of crypto payments, reminds me of what Microsoft did back in the day (forcing users to use IE if you were on Windows) which led to all their antitrust issues," Armstrongs says. '

No Mr. Armstrong.  Windows had a monopoly (okay an overwhelmingly dominant market position) in desk/laptop OSes.  iPhone doesn't even have a majority of the smartphone market.  Your analogy doesn't apply.  Complaining that Apple is a monopoly because it is the sole seller of Apple iPhones is like accusing Audi of monopolizing the market for Audi cars.  It's stupid talk.

Besides, why would Apple, or any other private company, want to promote a currency and technology that enables drug dealers, cyber criminals, tax evaders, terrorist organizations and all other sorts of nefarious characters?  Why should any private company that is not a monopoly or a public utility be compelled to enter into a line of business that it does not want to be in?  Why is it a private company's obligation to promote a technology that it doesn't want to be involved in?

Frankly, cryptocurrencies have not proved their value to society.  Even on a conceptual basis no one has made a credible case yet on how you can stop criminals from using it to conduct illegal transactions.

I still don't fully comprehend how Bitcoin works let-alone "cryptocurrencies".

I have a feeling I'm going to get flamed for this but IDGAS. 
I have looked into them. I do understand them. I saw them appear over a decade ago and watched them grow. I stayed well clear from them because they are a scam.
Basically a bitcoin is an imaginary bag of nothing. It is worth what the other people with these bags of nothing to pay, but there is in fact nothing there. 
People who mine them with other people's electricity might come out ahead. The people who set up this scam did great, because they set it up so the nothings were easy to mine early on. The people who come later find it much harder to mine them, so they pay real money for these nothings. The people who set these schemes collected their money and got out. People who put real money into them are likely going to lose everything.
Can you say Ponzi Scheme?
So I'm very happy with Apple not allowing Coinbase to keep doing their racket. 

Let me clue  you in, you should be flamed. The ignorance and limitation you have placed on yourself doesn't say too much positive  for you n this topic ...  Any currency not backed by a physical asset is, as you put it, "a bag of nothing." This would include the USD, GBP, Euro, Yen and all of them. It's the ability to exchange that "bag of nothing" for goods and services that makes a currency viable. Crypto currency is no more a scam than they are. 

The strong, well backed crypto currencies are strengthening.  The various groups, organizations, etc. building the systems are working very hard to create that environment and are having some success however minimal it may be at this stage.

A scam can be created around any asset with weak infrastructure and systems, whether it is a physical asset, paper or virtual. Of course that was exploited in the frenzy. The weak ones will fail and those who speculated in them will lose. 

It is far more than a scam. It is highly speculative at this stage of its evolution and a speculative environment invites deception, schemes, dishonesty, etc. Why do you think there is a SEC and other regulatory bodies for securities and established currencies? If you went a little more beyond what seems to be very limited vision and trying to impress with your sarcasm and flippant attitude and learned more about blockchain  and the infrastructure  being built, you would understand that while there are scammers and schemes, the product/exchange medium has strong potential benefits . You also know nothing about the capital commitment and large institutional funding the building of these infrastructures and security systems.

It's also clear you know nothing about blockchain other than the one or two articles you may read. Miners support the blockchain transaction system at a cost that is very, very low as compared to traditional financial transaction costs.

elijahg said:

Good, the courts would not have looked kindly on this.

You are not a lawyer and have no idea what the courts would or would not have looked kindly on.

ArianneFeldry said:

Apple is stealing money from their users.
If you signed up through Apple, then bought V-Bucks through the App Store, and never created a full Epic account for use with other devices. You're screwed. Apple disabling Sign in With Apple leaves these users with nothing.
This is incredibly screwed up for Apple to do this, and completely sours me on the service knowing that if Mozilla gets their developer certification cancelled for whatever reason, my Firefox account is gone along with my Pocket account.
What a boneheaded move from Apple, this move only harms the users of the app, not Epic.

Not a very smart comment. Many falsehoods. No understanding of the facts.